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  • The Drake

    Trask, the Novel

    Apr 17, 2020 2 minutes
    BY TOM BIE

    IT’S A FIFTY-MILE DRIVE from Gearhart, Oregon, south to Tillamook, following US 101. If you drove it today, it would take you just over an hour. In Trask, a historical novel set in 1848, it takes nearly 200 pages.

    Originally published in 1960, tells the story of Elbridge Trask, a real-life mountain man who settled along Oregon’s

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