Through painstaking research, Melany Tupper has succeded in giving the people of Oregon's north Lake County back some of their history. This first volume of High Desert Roses is a collection of twenty feature stories written by Tupper and published in newspapers around the region begining in the year 2000. Tupper is a serious researcher with an intimate knowledge of libraries and archives around Oregon, and her writing comes out of a rare form of consciousness, the end product of which is keenly insightful and anything but superficial. This book reveals surprising and little-known facts and history of central Oregon's high desert, and features interviews with local people, and scientists and experts from several disciplines.