Standing in the Gap for Oregon

John Day Dam, Sherman county. Fishing platform For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine  nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. Romans 1:20 On our trip to Hermiston last week we drove through Wasco County, then Sherman , which was once part of Wasco. When Wasco was formed in 1854 it was the largest county ever formed in the United States and stretched from the Washington border to the California border, and from the Cascade to the Rocky Mountains. 17 Oregon counties were later created from it, including Sherman in 1889. Moro is the county seat. In the 1880’s there was a “reverse migration” of settlers who arrived in the Willamette Valley only to find the best land already taken. They moved east and began farming and ranching on the dry eastern side of the Cascades. Some immigrants just stopped there and didn’t go on to the western side of the mountains. Enough...