I think you'll find that the entire area south of The Dalles was fairly well represented in all Wasco Co. news media of the time period you're talking about, Audrey. My family was concentrated down around 13-mile, 15-mile, Friend, Victor and in that area, and I've had pretty good success with getting info from sources in The Dalles from late 19th century until about 1930-ish. After that, the coverage dropped off except in the more rural newspapers or just the "news of outlying areas" sections of The Dalles' paper. Considering the date and more easterly location of Antelope, I wonder if maybe the Burns area genealogy society or even Umatilla County's genealogy society might have some information about your ancestor. It would be worth a try. Regarding historical societies & such, this is a question I've been meaning to ask, too. I know there was once that type of society in The Dalles, which covered the entire area, but it doesn't appear to be in the limelight now, if it's functioning at all. I'm going to do a little digging about that & will post my findings to the list. Interestingly, I need to get ahold of someone who holds the genealogy society's information that was gathered with regard to a great uncle of mine who was a stage coach driver back then. They did some type of article on him several years ago, and I need to get a copy of it. Here's a URL that is handy to have for some of these purposes. It lists all the historical and genealogy societies that are currently known by Rootsweb/Genweb. This is the listing for those in Oregon, whether they have a website or not. http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/link.html Cheri thelittlewonder@earthlink.net -- 'Genies' are here---> http://www.historysavers.com/