Another one of Joaquin Miller's short stories that has been effectively lost for a century. We offer for your pleasure A Ride Through Oregon. This seems to be three stories mashed together. The first and last couple of paragraphs contain bits that might be a tale of thwarted love and deception if it were fleshed out a little more, but as it is, I can't really say what is going on. The rest is a fairly conventional travelogue except stuffed into it is a panegyric to Ben Holladay one of pioneer Oregon's most notorious promoters. Judge Matthew Deady in his diary said of the piece that he suspected that Halladay had paid Miller to write it and this does not seem unfair. Still it is a candid snapshot of what a traveler would experience in a journey from California to Oregon in the early 1870's.