David C Hascall

I've lived in Oregon all my life, have worked and hunted in it's forests, fished it's streams, and shared these now dwindling resources with my children. As a history major first at the U of O, and then as a registered nurse, I became interested in the lives of the children of Oregon pioneers and how that generation found their own success. Were they inspired by stories from their parents along the Oregon trail? Did they want to one-up their parents, or simply live to the standard of the gift they had been given?

So often in my nursing practice over forty years I discovered that my older patients were anxious to tell their personal stories. Their ups and downs, hard times that required perseverance, and good luck was inspirational, and enriched my understanding of rarely considered aspects of history. Even during periods of severe illness their most basic communication tool involved story telling.

While a history book tells the facts, I wanted to create a composite of their backstory and my own. The first three novels set between 1929-1949, are the 'the Rainbow Road Trilogy': The Longest Wooden Railroad, Tahoe of the North, and The Color of Shadows. These began the journey along the rainbow road. They are as much their story as they are mine.

With the addition of the prequel this year, 2019, The Angel's Backbone, the trilogy has blossomed into a 100 years series of Oregon historical fiction (1869-1969). The final volume, Yellow Cake, Yellow Earth is currently being written. Best regards, David C Hascall