The Howls of Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek is a quiet, scenic town in southern Oregon about one hundred miles north of the California border. It's nestled amidst forested mountains with about six hundred people living in a five mile radius. It began as a stagecoach stop on the stretch between Sacramento and Portland. Then placer gold was found which attracted miners and Chinese migrant laborers. Later, the many giant trees provided jobs for workers of the timber industry. Hippies and counter-cultural folks began arriving in the seventies.The author lived for twenty-five years in Wolf Creek, serving as its civic association president, mail carrier, county park caretaker, pre-school teacher and newspaper correspondent. These stories are the legends and folktales he gathered from various sources including his own eyewitness.Two stories unrelated to Wolf Creek are added at the end.