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bb63, your story reminds me of the Lone Pine on the Oregon Trail near Baker, Oregon. It was the only tree for many miles amongst the sagebrush, and had been a navigation landmark for trappers for over three decades, maybe four, before the first wagon train came through. And what did the people in the first wagon train do? They cut it down for firewood. Only it was too green to burn, so they left the scorched limbs and trunk there.
Kinda reminds me of this ol' country called America. One day, this commie asshole comes along and decides to change it. All the people just looked the other way because they were afraid of him. He hired a bunch of czars to run things like he wanted to and paid them with the people's money. They really trashed the place. People got sick and died because they didn't have any insurance, but he didn't care. He was a communist and he knew people would look the other way because he was black and white people were afraid to do anything because they didn't want his czars to call them racists. Long story short, the country died...but the asshole didn't care because he had his money and his stuff, so he just laughed out loud and left.
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BIO-Thanks for calling it Baker, instead of Baker City. Never could understand why they changed the name. The Oregon Trail Museum there is pretty neat. Chas
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Probably changed it since they're in Baker County to avoid confusion. I've always known the town as Baker.
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Bend, the one in central Oregon, was originally called Farewell Bend. The name had something to do with the Deschutes River, which flows through Bend. Stories conflict. Some say it had to do with the only fordable portion for miles being there. Others that it was the pullout for rafts and boats before the rapids and waterfalls downstream. The name change is also controversial. Some state that the postal service shortened it to Bend. Other sources say the name was in conflict with Farewell Bend on the Oregon-Idaho border, where the Oregon Trail leaves the Snake River and heads inland. BTW, a presidential candidate was drowned on the Deschutes River at Bend. Frank T. Johns, running on the Socialist Party ticket. During a speech he was making on the campaign trail in 1928, a child fell into the nearby river and he went in to rescue the kid, but wound up drowning.
I don't know where the name North Bend came from. The original name was Yarrow. Coos Bay surrounds North Bend on three sides. It literally bends around the town to the north of it, so perhaps that has something to do with the name. The city of Coos Bay is named after the bay. Apparently they didn't like the original name of Marshfield. In the old days, Jedediah Smith explored the area for the Hudson's Bay Company. If you've seen The Simpons episodes showing Jedediah Springfield, the explorer/founder of Springfield, that's where Matt Groening got the first name from. The last name was from the town of Springfield, Oregon.
I don't know where the name North Bend came from. The original name was Yarrow. Coos Bay surrounds North Bend on three sides. It literally bends around the town to the north of it, so perhaps that has something to do with the name. The city of Coos Bay is named after the bay. Apparently they didn't like the original name of Marshfield. In the old days, Jedediah Smith explored the area for the Hudson's Bay Company. If you've seen The Simpons episodes showing Jedediah Springfield, the explorer/founder of Springfield, that's where Matt Groening got the first name from. The last name was from the town of Springfield, Oregon.
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