by Jeffery W. McKelroy It’s a 9 to 10 hour drive, depending on your starting point, from the Cascades, east to Deer Lodge, Montana. The drive takes you through Spokane and the Nez Perce National Forest. It is truly beautiful. I wanted to spend more time in those areas but as I headed east, I…

You are a writer the moment that you say you are a writer. Then you must prove it. I went to school for 7 months to become an electronics technician but couldn’t call myself one until I graduated and had the certificate in my hand. I spent four years studying law but I never went…

by Jeffery W. Mckelroy When we think of the Old West and westward expansion of the United States, we seldom think of the Pacific Northwest. I think most people tend to think of the striking images from old cowboy movies of wide-open desert terrain and brutal heat. The Pacific Northwest is just as important in…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy If you travel just a few miles northwest of Preston, Idaho along Highway 91 you will arrive upon the site of the Bear River Massacre. In terms of brutality and overall numbers of those killed, it was much more brutal than the better-known Battle of Wounded Knee, but because it took…