• First wagons easier to pin than the last
O ver the river, through the woods and across the plains department.

• Weighing the sources of history
I n my Oct. 26 profile of Whitman Massacre survivor Lorinda Bewley Chapman, I cited two accounts that transformed her ordeal into the stuff of frontier soap opera.

• Early Oregon senator among dubious five
L ongtime Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and longtime Oregon Sen. John Mitchell aren't quite equal to two peas in a pod.