Oregon Historical Quarterly

He's also an advisory member of the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Projects Board.

In 2021, Home published a short comic called They Called Him Buckaroo Sam and an issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly about Oregon's Chinese diaspora.

He drew inspiration from newspaper clippings, oral histories, and photographs to imagine what life was like for Chinese cowboys like Buckaroo Sam on the farms and ranches of Grant County and in Chinese immigrant communities in John Day or Canyon City.

There was only one image that I could find of Buckaroo Sam in his later years.

In 1950, Oregon poet and folklore historian Verne Bright, while researching a book project on American frontier folklore, found a rich trove of Davy Crockett almanacs full of tales about Davy in the Beaver State.

Bright, a frequent contributor to the Oregon Historical Quarterly, promptly prepared a selection of some of the juiciest morsels for publication.

Here are some of the highlights from what he found.

Quote, "I s'pose you has heered of them diggins out West that are called Oregon, and how the British wants to have joint occupancy of that air clearing.

And not many years after that, the entire town would be left to the jackrabbits.

Key sources in this story included Reminiscences and Anecdotes, an article by Oz West published in the December 1949 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly, Harney County and its Rangeland, a book by George Francis Brimlow, Binford and Moore, 1951, and the archives of the Burns Times-Herald, Malheur Enterprise, and Portland, Oregon Journal, 1912 to 1913.

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