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    Cornucopia: A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold
    Cornucopia: A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold
    Cornucopia: A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold
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    Cornucopia: A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold

    By Laurel Anne Bryan

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    What begins as a relaxing, back to nature backpacking trip into Oregon's rugged Eagle Cap wilderness soon evolves into a three month adventure of a lifetime for three people and a big white dog.

    Physically unprepared and ill equipped, the party sets out on a three day hiking trip only to discover Mother Nature is not always willing to accommodate such novice trespassers in her back yard.

    Forced to confront the challenges of nature's wrath head on, each hiker learns true loss is not in the absence of material things, but rather the failure to discover the strength which is inside each of us.

    Follow the incredible journey as these ragtag wanna-be hikers set out to discover new trails and discover instead that sometimes it's not always the destination, but the journey that is most remembered.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 15, 2006
    ISBN9780595828616
    Cornucopia: A Journey Through the Mountains of Gold
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    Laurel Anne Bryan

    Laurel Bryan grew up in the small, scenic town of Halfway, Oregon with Pine Creek and the Eagle Cap Wilderness as her playground. Now living in Idaho, Laurel earns a living as a certified systems engineer. She spends her spare time writing, hiking, camping and enjoying life as nature intended.

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      Cornucopia - Laurel Anne Bryan

      Copyright © 2006 by Laurel Anne Sappe’

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews

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      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword

      CORNUCOPIA

      PART I The Journey

      PART II Search for the Camera

      PART III The Search Continues

      PART IV The Final Search

      Epilogue

      Dedicated to Spud.. .the hero in all my stories.

      Acknowledgments

      To Linda Thorpe: A heartfelt thank-you for your encouragement, support, and amazing grasp of the English language. Your faith in others is surpassed only by your gentle and graceful ways. I am eternally grateful.

      To my dad, Jerry Bryan: Thank you for instilling in me the importance of family and preserving what we, as a people, cannot afford to lose. Thank you, also, for passing on your less than uncanny sense of direction. Had I not inherited your ability to get lost in my own backyard, I might have missed some of the most wonderful adventures of my life.

      To my Mom, Lolah Yoshikawa: With every adventure came cuts, bruises, and broken bones. Thank you for patching up my wounds over the years. Your creativity with Vet Wrap puts even the most experienced medical professionals to shame.

      To my grandma, Lillian Lowe: Thank you for whipping up one magical batch of green Jell-O.

      Foreword

      Gold was discovered in the small mining town of Cornucopia, Oregon, sometime around 1884. It is said its gold ore was so rich that nuggets would literally fall out of the rock, thus giving the town the name of Cornucopia: signifying wealth and plenty.

      In the early 1900s, my grandparents, Emery Jennings Bryan and Alice Rose Aklin Bryan, purchased a small piece of ground in this once-bustling town. They built a cabin just off the banks of Pine Creek. Grandma planted two pine saplings: one on each side of the cabin’s porch, which faced the creek.

      Cornucopia is now a ghost town. My grandparents’ cabin is long since gone. The only thing remaining of the original cabin is two towering pine trees standing guard over my family’s heritage. I never knew my grandfather; he died when my own father was nine months old. My grandma often spoke of Grandpa and their life together so many years ago.

      Even though I never saw the cabin or met the man, I have always felt a special bond with the land where they once stood. Pine Creek, Cornucopia, and the beautifully rugged Eagle Cap mountains hold a lifetime of memories for me.

      I never panned for gold in its creeks or staked claim to its many mines, but wealth and plenty I certainly have derived from its bounty of heritage, adventure, and a magic which can not be bought with all the gold her mountains contain.

      CORNUCOPIA: cor-nu-co-pi-a (kor n^k* p®-⁹,-ny⁸-) n.

      1. Also called horn of plenty. Signifying wealth and plenty

      2.   Greek Mythology. The horn of the goat that suckled Zeus, which broke off and became filled with fruit. In folklore, it became full of whatever its owner desired.

      3.   An overflowing store; an abundance:

      CORNUCOPIA

      ♦

      A JOURNEY THROUGH THE

      MOUNTAINS OF GOLD

      Green Jell-O

      Wrapped in my grandma’s worn terrycloth bathrobe, I sat at the kitchen table, mentally and physically exhausted, staring at a spoonful of green Jell-O. I don’t think I have ever seen anything more insignificant, or more ridiculous, than those little, pie-shaped pieces of pineapple, suspended in a blob of florescent green gelatin. My grandpa use to say: There’s nothing like a spoon full of Jell-O to make you giggle when it wiggles. I think maybe he was right! This spoonful of Jell-O didn’t have to wiggle; it didn’t have to jiggle, or even move. What started out as a subtle grin soon developed into insuppressible giggles each time

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