Two Years in Oregon

Twenty-six English emigrants step ashore in Corvallis armed as if they were entering hostile country—just as news arrives of a sheriff, an escaped prisoner, and a pistol. The welcome they find is rather less murderous than their revolvers suggest.

In the spring of 1880, Wallis Nash brings his wife, children, and a party of would-be settlers to Oregon, a young country of river towns, mountain views, muddy streets, and homes that seem ready to blow away. Rather than wall themselves off in an English colony, they must make a life among Oregonians—and discover whether the place Nash once recommended from afar can truly become home. The sheriff’s near-mishap is almost the only brush with tragedy; the real test is the daily work of settling in. What will two years in Oregon teach them about the place—and themselves?

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