Roberta McKern
As we meander through the East Linn Museum, we likely don’t have cattle in mind until we come across lariats, saddles, mohair chaps and a branding iron in its tack room. Although some of the branding irons actually were used on logs during drives down the Santiam and Calapooia rivers, when we see them, we automatically think of cowboys, cattle herds and “get along, little dogie.”
If local history comes to mind, we…