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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Gary Lewis / The Bulletin
November 25, 2010
On December 25, 1853, the Kincaid family of Lane County, in the Territory of Oregon, could count 75 days in their new home.
Christmas, in the one-room cabin, looked bleak with no church near, no stores, and their kin 2,500 miles away. The journey west from Indiana had taken nearly all their....