Oregon Considered
2/14/2007 - Cattle Rustling, Family Feuds, And Murder In Isolated Eastern Oregon Town
February 14, 2007
It sounds like a tale straight out of the Wild West: Accusations of cattle-rustling; a man on horseback shot from his saddle; a long-standing family feud.
But this landscape isn't open plains and tumbleweeds -- instead think mountains and snowdrifts. Local writer Rich Wandschneider describes it this way:
Rich Wandschneider: "If you want to think you're in heaven, you know, go ice-skating on Wallowa Lake sometime. You're like the only person in the world, and that God made it for you. And then for this other thing to go on..."
That "other thing" unfolded last month in the tiny northeast Oregon town of Flora. Two men were shot dead in a barnyard.
We sent OPB's Rob Manning to Wallowa County, where Dennis Beach and Shane Huntsman were killed. His report details much of what happened to the Beach family in January, and how it squares with life in a remote part of Oregon.
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