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Alice Day Pratt was a teacher and author who at age 40 joined the last wave of government-sponsored homesteading in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] Pratt, who was single, established a dryland farm and ranch near Post , about 60 miles (97 km) east of Bend . [ 2 ]
She went on to work in this field for three decades. When visiting Oregon while looking for a job, she fell in love with the area and moved to Bend in 1974. After selling several freelance articles, she quit her job and moved with her husband to a 160 acre ranch near the John Day River. When the ranch required more money than anticipated, she ...
My dad was – my dad is – larger than life, just this enormous power source, barrel-chested and cocky and, ahem, a whole lot like the ballplayer we know as Pete Rose.
Kat Dennings and Tim Allen are a father-daughter match made in TV heaven!. Over the course of her decades-long career, the actress, 38, has had her fair share of on-screen dads. As she embarks on ...
Homestead is an unincorporated community in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] Homestead lies on the Snake River south of Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and about 4 miles (6 km) north of Copperfield and Oxbow .
Couric took over Norville’s hosting spot in 1991 and remained on Today through 2006. She recalled her decision to leave the show in her 2021 memoir, Going There, writing, “By 2005, I was at a ...
The 40-year-old actress opened up about the loss of her TV dad, admitting it's "been a rough couple of weeks" since his Jan. 9 death.
Letitia Carson was an Oregon pioneer and one of the first African Americans to be listed as living in Oregon according to the U.S. Federal Census. In fact, she was the only black woman to successfully make a land claim in Oregon under the Homestead Act of 1862. She was the inspiration for Jane Kirkpatrick's 2014 novel A Light In The Wilderness.