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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
October 19, 2007
PRINEVILLE — When he arrived in the Crooked River Valley in 1868 to set up a saloon, general merchandise store and blacksmith shop, Francis “Barney” Prine was 27.
Accounts from the time describe him as tall, broad-shouldered and athletic, a multitalented....