Frontier Killing News Today

By DAVE FISHELL

<p>"The history we learned was a lie, and it was a deliberate lie, one that had been debunked in 1900 by scholars at Yale and in Chicago. But the people of the Pacific Northwest, despite all evidence to the contrary, had clung to a story that was baloney. That's what hooked me."</p>

2021 Events Calendar for Tillamook County: Manzanita, Wheeler, Nehalem, Rockaway Beach, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City

Blaine Harden’s book “Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West” is dedicated to “The Tribes of the Columbia Plateau,”

• The kids garden club will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday. • The library board of directors will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday. • A quilting meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. A quilting weekend is planned for this weekend. • In May, teens can earn a chance to win a free specialty drink from the Cupbearer Cafe by competing in the library’s teen trivia contest. For each month of trivia teens complete, Ms. Teya will place your name in a jar. After three months, she will...

On the Shelf Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West By Blaine Harden Viking: 464 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Chinua Achebe once recalled an African proverb to an interviewer: “Until the lions have their own historians, the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” His words seem to have extra resonance in these times, as Am...