Shaniko: From Wool Capital to Ghost Town

By Helen Guyton Rees

Book Overview

Shaniko, located in the vast high desert of Oregon's interior, fairly leaped into being when the Columbia Southern Railroad terminated its line at Cross Hollows in 1900. For the next ten years, it was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0832305383
• ISBN13: 9780832305382
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A captivating capsule history of the little town

Shaniko: From Wool Capital To Ghost Town by Helen Guyton Rees is a captivating capsule history of the little town of Shaniko, Oregon. It had its humble origins as a tent city in the early 1900s because of its location at the end of a railroad line. The community of Shaniko went on to become a great center for the wool trade, and petered out in the post World War II era -- until it was dubbed a Ghost Town in 1959. Yet a lively remembrance of the town's local roots continue to make Shaniko an enjoyable tourist destination, and this deftly written account presents an intrinsically fascinating history of an American community enhanced with more than hundred rare and historic black-and-white photographs drawn from the last century.