Julian Smith is an award-winning nonfiction journalist specializing in history, science, and travel. His work appears in Smithsonian, Wired, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, and the Washington Post. His most recent book, Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West, won the 2020 Oregon Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.
In 1952, a vicious double murder at Crater Lake stunned the nation.
Production for The General involved guns, bombs, fires, and the blowing up of a bridge in a tiny Oregon town.
