Buy a copy of The Story of Will Martin for $19.95 … the tale of a young river guide who finds himself on the bank of the Rogue River in southern Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century following an eclipse. It was a period when three events intersected to forever change life in the valleys along the river, each impacting the lifeline of the other. The Applegate Trail opened the land and region to an increasing number of migrants and associated growth. Gold was discovered and rigorously mined in north California and southern Oregon territories, and the Native people were overtaken in land and numbers culminating with the Rogue River Wars of 1855-56 and the forced expulsion of the native Americans from their homelands.