Long Storn Author:Ernest Haycox WESTERN GENRE: Through the long storm of the Civil War, the four savage years that split the union, the rich northwest was a defenseless prize for either the North or the South. Portland, Oregon, was a town with five thousand inhabitants and fifty-five saloons, high-toned hotels and brothels, gaudy girl-shows and a fnacy residential section, pla... more »nk 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 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