Terrie Biggs
NovelsByTerrie.com
Glimpses of Elgin’s History
& Dastardly Deeds
​
Legends of lost gold, deadly arson fires, murders, crime-fighting, the protected community of Sammyville, the treasured Elgin Stagecoach, and a beloved teacher are some of the fascinating anecdotes about the historic town of Elgin, Oregon found in this informative book by Terrie Biggs.
Interviews with local citizens, law enforcement, the Elgin library staff, and Charlie Horn of the Elgin Museum contributed to stories of Elgin’s colorful history and glimpses of dastardly deeds from the late 1920s to the early 1980s, which she shares in this intriguing book.
The Unsolved Murder of John Mayfield
​
Christmas day ended. The Andy Coe family was sleeping at their rented home in Imbler, Oregon. A gunshot jolted Grace Coe from a sound sleep at 3:00 a.m., December 26, 1927. It seemed to be from someone on the front porch shooting through the half-window of the front door. Glass shattered into the living room. Their overnight “guest,” who was sleeping on the couch across from the door, was dead with blood splattering on the wall, which divided the living room from the kitchen.
This updated book is a continuation of Terrie's investigation into the murder of John Mayfield. Solving the murder of John Mayfield was her original intent.
​
Has she solved it? You be the judge.
Hit the Deck: Memoirs of an Apprentice Boy
​
These incredible memoirs began in 1899 by 15-year-old Gaither Stevens soon after he joined the Navy as an Apprentice Boy. It was a different world and a different Navy. His extraordinary experiences were captured in a typed manuscript kept safe and unpublished until now. In these writings, you’ll find adventures of a lifetime highlighting encounters with a grizzly bear, bar fights, a train robbery, murder, boxing, fiestas, abduction as a sex slave, turtle races, wild shipmates, an Eskimo prostitute, and other savory scenes. Gaither’s chronicles of fellow “blue-jackets” and places he visited are wonderous, humorous, and heart-warming. This wild rollercoaster reveals life in a nearly forgotten time that produced some of the Navy’s finest men.
