Welcome Readers!
Many of you are familiar with my novels known as the OREGON TRIO, but if you aren't let me give you some background.
I spent my grade school years in small Oregon towns as my father moved around the state pursuing his career as a funeral director and embalmer. Those years took our family to Baker City, Tillamook and Roseburg, Oregon. Years later I fulfilled my dream of honoring those special towns by writing novels set in each of them.
First came BAKER CITY 1948. Doing my research to find the aha moment, I discovered that in March of 1948 a woman by the name of Catherine Douglass was brutally murdered – the case never solved. That sad story became the inspiration for BAKER CITY 1948 wherein nine-year-old Philip Wade faces adult realities over the violent death of a local schoolteacher and his father's surprising defense of the accused.
TILLAMOOK 1952 came next and was influenced by the first of the four forest fires known as the Tillamook Burn. On August 24, 1933, Verlin Lundigun is helping fight the fiercest of forest fires when he catches a piece of pitch-fired flaming tree trunk with his face. He lives but later dies from a gunshot. Eighteen years pass before a nephew is driven to find out why and how his uncle died.
The final novel in the trio is ROSEBURG 1959, again influenced by an actual event. A truckload of explosives guts Roseburg, Oregon at button 1:14 a.m. on August 7, 1959, and Ross Bagby stands at the edge the conflagration unaware that his so-called life is about to go up in the flames. On all fronts, he is tested against circumstances beyond his control. He has been living a life of acquiescence—now he will discover what he's made of.
Again, welcome. Thank you for your interest. If you have questions or comments, please contact me at me email address below.
George Byron Wright
C3 Publications
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