Mt. Bachelor’s Last Sale

by Glenn Voelz | Mar 18, 2025

Excerpted from Mt. Bachelor – A History, by Glenn Voelz This article was first published in the December, 2024 issue of The Homesteader. The recent Powdr Corp. decision — since called off — to sell Mt. Bachelor was big news for many Deschutes County residents,...

The Church, the pub, and the engineer

by Bonnie Burns | Mar 18, 2025

This article was first published in the September, 2018 issue of The Homesteader. One of the services of the Deschutes County Historical Museum is researching the many requests we receive on a daily basis: family backgrounds, events, historical homes and sites. One...

Rex Barber: The Central Oregon pilot who brought down Pearl Harbor mastermind

by Mike Berry | Mar 18, 2025

This article was first published in the November, 2023 issue of The Homesteader. 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most remarkable and daring military missions in World War II: A 400 mile low-level flight of 16 U.S. Army P-38 “Lightning” fighter planes...

Lava Lake Murders

by Mike Berry | Feb 27, 2025

This article was first published in the April, 2024 issue of The Homesteader. A Rough Character – In the early days, The Bend Bulletin would list the out-of-town guests  staying at the various lodgings in the city. These “At the Hotels” columns indicate that in...

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science with Catherine McNeur

by Editor | Nov 14, 2024

In her new book, Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the forgotten lives and work of the sisters Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, who were at the center of scientific conversations and debates in the nineteenth century....