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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By John Gottberg Anderson / The Bulletin
March 7, 2008
Barney Prine was a man for all seasons at a time when the rugged prairies of Central Oregon demanded just that.
Prine was a blacksmith, a storekeeper and a bartender. Back in 1868, seizing an opportunity, he hammered together a few buildings on the banks of the Crooked River, in the heart of a....