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What would Bill Greeley think?
Evergreen's Jim Petersen recalls the Great 1910 Fire from a personal perspective: Hundreds, including my great aunt Norah, escaped the fire as it approached Avery, Idaho. Her train momentarily took cover in the St. Paul Tunnel on the Idaho-Montana. Then the engineer discovered his wood-fired steam engine was filling the tunnel with headly carbon monoxide, so he made a run for it across a burning trestle. Years later I asked her what she was thinking as she pressed her nose against the window glass and looked at flames crawling up the trestle. "What I think? Jesus Jimmy, I damn near pissed my pants!" Years later, I asked her why she moved from Spokane to Avery when she was 19 years old. "Well Jimmy," she replied, "There were three things I really liked then. Good cigars, great whiskey and big time loggers and I found all three in Avery."

What would Bill Greeley think?

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