A Hundred and Sixty Acres in the Sage: Homestead History of the Immediate Post Area 1984 by Beverly Wolverton - Crook County, Oregon

Title: A Hundred and Sixty Acres in the Sage: Homestead History of the Immediate Post Area

Author: Beverly A. Wolverton

Description: Signed by the author on title page. Front cover show some minor creasing and has a small, light red blemish. Pages clean. Centerfold map showing the location of the homesteads. Many b/w photographs. 109 pp. 10.75 x 8 inches.

Telling the history of 127 mostly-homestead properties in the Post (Crook County) Oregon area. There are also notes on Post's general store, grange, its schools, the Newsom Creek Cemetery, the Maury Mountain Mine, old moonshine stills, the Whimmer family cheese factory, the Henry & Cayton sawmill, etc. Some properties are described in more detail than others with some being given a short paragraph and others a couple pages. Includes many local anecdotes and biographical information on early residents.

The author, Beverly Wolverton, collected much of the information from her father John Beoletto (the Beoletto family settled in Post in 1913) as well as from other old timers and with help from the Crook County Clerk's office.

Binding: Staple bound soft cover
Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: [published by the author]
Place: Post, Oregon
Year: 1984

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: Oregon, Crook County, Post, history, genealogy, Beoletto, Conant,