Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Sherman County with Mt. Adams For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley… Deuteronomy 8:7-8 Around 1958 a man named Giles French published the book The Golden Land: A History of Sherman County, Oregon . He wrote: The land that lies between the Deschutes and John Day rivers and north of township five south of the base line in Oregon is Sherman County. It slopes gently north to the Columbia River on what is called by geologists the Shaniko surface…Because of the deep gorges of the Deschutes and John Day rivers running north to the Columbia, Sherman County is a geological and geographical entity. The canyons make it to a marked extent a social and political entity as well. Sherman County, Oregon By the late 1880s the Willamette Valley seemed pretty settled and crowded to those seeking wide open spaces, so restless settlers from the west began moving inland, ...