Long Storm Author:Ernest Haycox Portland, Oregon, was a town with five thousand inhabitants and fifty-five saloons, high-toned hotels and brothels, gaudy girl-shows and a fancy residential section, plank sidewalks and mud streets. Every day more gold prospectors poured into town, and with them came guns and secret agents from the Confederacy, supplies from the Copperheads who ... more »were determined to turn Oregon into a slave state. Only one man, Adam Musick, tough riverboat captain, saw the danger to the union cause...« less