Safe Thus Far: Searching for Truth in Civil War Oregon

Finalist for the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award, October 2022

Sixteen-year-old Will McDougall has completed the education available to him in the 1864 frontier town of Oregon City, and his future is uncertain. Then he learns his family's darkest secret-a secret his parents have concealed since his birth.

Devastated by this deception, Will runs away with a friend. The boys become mule packers for a militia unit exploring the untamed wilderness of Southern Oregon.

Against the backdrop of...