Author: Wallace Ohrt
Softcover
114 pages
 
Book description
The remote segment of the Upper Rogue River valley in southern Oregon that is the hero of this account has been covered by the slowly rising waters behind a 360-foot federal dam. The dam will protect the populous lower valley from floods, provide irrigation water, create jobs... But beneath the waters there once was a place where people struggled against the Great Depression, where wild animals roamed the woods, and flowers announced the spring. Author Wallace Ohrt lived there then, and wrote this book for the simple pleasure of remembering, and sharing, a way of life that is far from today's increasingly structured existence. 
 
Born in Saskatchewan, Ohrt came to Oregon with his family as a child, living on the Rogue until 1936 when the Ohrts resettled in Medford. Following a year at the University of Oregon, Ohrt began a career in the aircraft industry as a writer and presentation specialist, later completing his education at Victoria (B.C.) College and the University of Washington. He is currently a free lance technical writer and editor, and has had a number of articles published in general and travel magazines. The manuscript for this book received a Second Place Award, Nonfiction books, at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference in 1977.