Fern Hobbs and the Snake River Showdown | Oregon Experience

On New Year’s Day 1914 Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his private secretary on a mission to shut down a lawless town. The wild West meets the remarkable Fern Hobbs In one of the most bizarre chapters in Oregon’s history.
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[@frannyy9309]

Definitely need to make a movie of her life.

[@timkellysr1102]

What an interesting story.

[@GH-oi2jf]

It wasn’t “Baker City” in those days. It was just “Baker.”

[@donaldcendana7288]

too funny.....what a hardass

[@JRPetruk]

Terrific story and quite a gal.

[@r8chlletters]

Little was said about how she likely was unable to be married or have children due to the times she lived in. You could serve as she did but only if you never got pregnant.

[@Drew-Hill]

An amazing woman ❤️

[@davidmcmullen3864]

💘

[@johnaiken9615]

Disney should to a movie on this.

[@helenhunter4540]

I've seen about 3 of these programs. Do you ever do programs about the Native people these white people "replaced"?

[@rorytennes8576]

Great story. But Fern did not clean up Copperfield. The governor and the national guard did.

[@krisaguilar6699]

Early shades of the tyranny and forfeiture of local control Oregonians would have to suffer through 106 years later...under the fiefdom of the most unpopular governor in state history. I don't drink, and to me, bars are a blight on any neighborhood...but no governor has the right to declare martial law because he/she doesn't "like" something. I really regret that my ancestors settled in Oregon.

[@RealistNW]

A female Beto O’roark

[@BlindBadger212]

Stenographer...the type of job (not dangerous at al!!!) that a fuqing computer can do!