On The Road from Burns: Stories from Central Oregon

On the Road from Burns brings to life a still remote part of the American west.

In sixteen stories dating from 1853 to 2039, Ted Haynes presents fascinating characters facing the wide-open opportunities of this beautiful land. We meet pioneers, Indians, scoundrels, lumber camp women, and even aliens who love to ride horses. The stories range in style from humorous to sad, from suspense to romance, and from realistic to imaginative.

In "Bridges" a rancher rides two days with his young son to see the 1911 engineering marvel of a railroad bridge being built 320 feet above the Crooked River.

In "Do No Harm" a frontier doctor in La Pine outsmarts a gang of outlaws. A golfer encounters a very strange tournament on an impossible golf course in "Local Rules".

"Fatal Errors," tells the story of a man who witnesses an attempted murder and lives to regret that he said nothing about it.

In "Prisoner of Conscience" an Italian POW escapes from a camp near Sunriver to live in the forest and climb Mt. Bachelor.

The older man in "Living Well" must find, with the help of his wife, a way to relate to a grown-up daughter he never knew existed.

The stories are told by a rich variety of narrators - men, women, third parties, and omniscient. A great introduction to the storytelling potential of the vast and rapidly growing territory of Central Oregon.

Author: Ted Haynes
Publisher: Robleda Company, Publishers
Published: 03/08/2017
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780964650633

About the Author
Haynes, Ted: - Ted Haynes is the author of The Terrorist and other works of both fiction and non-fiction. He studied creative writing at Dartmouth College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. He spends summers on the Little Deschutes River in Central Oregon and winters near Stanford.