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Zane Grey cabin now a public site

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20080519
Author:Jeff Barnard Associated Press

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- After floating the Rogue River's rapids and falling in love with its steelhead, Western writer Zane Grey bought a mining claim in 1926 at Winkle Bar, where he built a crude one- room cabin of peeled logs and hand-split shingles that became his wilderness retreat.

After Grey's death, the cabin was acquired by the Haas family of San Francisco, owners of Levi Strauss and at one time the Oakland A's, who built their own modern cabins on the property but allowed the public to walk around the old Zane Grey cabin as long as they took nothing but pictures.

Now the 32 acres and the ...

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