One who personally took note of the program was best-selling author and Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate, who used the ...

In her first stand-alone book, Applegate (the Animorphs series ... richly descriptive verse narrative about a girl on the Oregon Trail. Afraid only of thunderstorms, Hallie embraces the trip ...

“I often use those four lenses in fiction but not as overtly as I did in this book,” Kirkpatrick said. Applegate’s name rings a bell for many Oregonians because of the Applegate ...

profiled in the book by former Oregonian and Associated Press reporter and editor R. Gregory Nokes. After a son and a nephew drowned in the Columbia River on the Oregon Trail, Applegate resolved ...

Q: The Oregon Trail blazed the route for Interstate 84. What predated the route that was chosen for I-5 through Southern Oregon? A: Much of the length was used in 1846, when three Applegate ...

Coler Trail and Applegate Trail on the west side of Bentonville are really two trails in one. They join at Northwest Third Street to create a most scenic concrete trail ideal for the skinny tires ...

Explore the history of the Applegate Trail, the southern branch of the Oregon Trail. Early settlers coming to Oregon crossed vast plains, foreboding mountains, and hot deserts, only to find their ...

Maddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. Has anybody else noticed ...

ALBANY - For years, an Applegate Trail marker has stood on the Linn County Courthouse lawn, even though the trail never came through Albany. So why doesn't the marker stand where the trail ...