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NEWS & EVENTS

BREAKING NEWS: Amazon recently made audible available with AI-generated realistic voices. I am in the process of adding it to my books.  All my books are on Amazon.com in paperback and free on Kindle Unlimited. Put "Terrie Biggs" in the Amazon search box. Note:  In the Kindle versions, photographs are in color if they are available.

Glimpses of Elgin's History & Dastardly Deeds

I expect this book to grow because there were more people I hadn't yet interviewed than are in it. Elgin, Oregon, was wild in its past.  I stopped crime-fighting before our beloved Sheriff Steve Oliver took the reins. Steve has many tales, but this was intended for a certain period.  

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The Unsolved Murder of John Mayfield

In November 2019, I discovered the murder and hit a dead end.  In 2023, I had a clandestine meeting with a person in his 80s who knew the son who lived in the Coe house where the murder occurred.  He gave me details of the son and the encounters with his family, which led me to interview more Elgin, Oregon residents with information about the Coe family.
 No police file was located.  I updated the book, omitting some of Jerry Wright's stories and poems not about the murder, which I originally published for his family.
Hit the Deck  is a big hit with Kindle readers and by far the most pages read of all my books...however, from huge interest in the Mayfield Murder, this might change.
 It is so charming and such an informative, and revealing look at early 19th century conditions in the Navy Apprentice Boy Program. 
One of the chapters is about his grandmother  (my great-great grandmother) and her daring and dangerous journey from New York to San Francisco with her children by ship and then by the first train across the Isthmus of Panama.  Thank heavens her brothers brought their pistols.
Culinary Delights & Words of Wisdom
 Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight show presented this is  beautiful 8 1/2 x 11 inch, full-color, large print cookbook on his "Do not read list."  I initiated it because of a goof I made on another book by inadvertently uploading the cookbook contents into "Some Trails Never End" for a brief time.  Oh well, it got national exposure, so thanks, Jimmy.  Please  feel free to contact me for a direct sale because I have them spiral-bound.  They are also in our local La Grande store Community Merchants.  This makes a perfect Christmas gift.

 

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Some Trails Never End

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest with many trails of folklore, colorful characters, legends, and events interwoven.
 

I had originally written and performed a small part of this story with three friends at the 150th Anniversary celebration of the Oregon Trail in La Grande.  As I began researching the story I realized the book I did this reader theater (twice) was a romanticized version of a young girl being rescued from captivity by a Cayuse chief.  It took me about 22 years to complete, edit, and publish what I would consider a more realistic and truthful version along with the other people involved in the Whitman Mission.  I was very proud of completing this, which was my first book I wrote and the third I published.

Bali Ram

I updated the book to include even more training background after Jenny, the daughter of George Blaker, who was the Financial Advisor to the British High Commissioner contacted me.  Her father took thousands of photographer of his travels in India and inivted Bali to perform many times at their house.  The famous Kathakali dancer Guru Gopinath who trained under, was also added thanks to Jenny and Gopinath's daughter who also contacted me.  It was wonderful to have not only validation, but additional background.

One of Eleven

Check out the reviews on Amazon and be sure to add your own if you enjoyed it.  In an update, Gary did a DNA test and we now know which man is his biological father.

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