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Date: 12/8/2008 Album ID: 648975
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Sterling Grant and his daughter Rebekah Grant live on property their ancestors homesteaded in the 1870s. I want to live out here all my life, Rebekah said.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Rebekah Grant often rides Rex and Poncho, though they aren't her main work horses. The duo is getting old and Rex is blind.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Sterling Grant, pictured in his grandfather Leonard Grant's trophy room, talks about predators in the Harlan area. Leonard Grant was a government trapper, and later Lincoln County Commissioner, who killed more than 600 bears.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Sterling Grant is a real cowboy but its been harder to earn a buck, so he's driving truck to make extra money.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Leonard Grant's trophy room used to have more horns, but those were taken out to make room for a portrait of the former govenrnment trapper, said grandson Sterling Grant.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Randy Quetschke, owner of the Burnt Woods Store, talks with good friend Boyd Eagleson, a prominent youth sports coach for Eddyville. The two said declining populations were a problem throughout Coast Range communities.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Rebekah Grant, 12, rides her horse Teddy on her family's property. Her dad won't let her ride too far from home, because he is worried about bears.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Moss grows on a shelter at Sterling Grant's ranch. The Coast Range gets plenty of rain during the winter, but temperatures generally are cooler than the valley during the summer.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Many of the pastures in Harlan have been replaced with fir trees, so Sterling Grant has to take his herds elsewhere to graze. The changing landscape has hurt the rancher's bottom line.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Sterling Grant said there used to be many more social activities in Harlan, but those disappeared as the population declined, and as it got easier to drive to Corvallis.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Rebekah Grant is thinking about becomming a a waitress or a horse trainer someday.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Ted, often called Teddy Bear, is Rebekah Grant's main work horse He dosen't like to stand around, he likes to go, go, go. Rebekah said.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Rebekah Grant's family doesn't have satellite TV, so for fun she watches Roy Rogers movies - to see Trigger.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Rebekah Grant doesn't get to hang out with friends like other kids, but she's happy in Harlan, partly because she rides horses every day. I love horses, she said. You can't really have horses in the city.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times The barn on Rebekah Grant's ranch was built by her great grandfather.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Winston Grant, Sterling Grant's father, wipes the dust off the 1939 Edsel he's fixing up. The 91-year-old likes living in Harlan and being away from the hustle and bustle.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Decades ago the roads in Harlan were so bad You could hardly get out of here in the wintertime, said Winston Grant, who lives off Feagles Creek. The roads were mud in the wintertime and dust in the summertime.
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Andy Cripe | Gazette-Times Winston Grant lives with his wife Lola in a house he built in 1950.
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