Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Oregon History (Paperback)

Kicking off Globe Pequot's new "Jerks" series, "Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Oregon History" presents 13 sketches of assorted crazy and crooked characters from Oregon's past. Itinerant preacher Edwin Creffield gathered his followers in Corvallis--minus their clothes! Vigilantes stormed a central Oregon town hoping to wipe out rustlers, but ended up catching innocent men in the crossfire. S. A. D. Puter, once a timber assessor, headed a cast of dozens of Oregon officials who cheated the government out of thousands of acres of land. These and other stories tell of the adventures and misadventures of some of Oregon's wacky and jerk-y historical citizens.