Business: Ranch Swap

In the middle of the 19th Century a roving U. S. couple named Rice arrived in Oregon aboard a sailing ship, heard tall tales of Indian massacres in the interior, hastily re-embarked for Hawaii. There they settled on the island of Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of...

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