![]() Newspaper accounts, which are set in a narrowed format in the book reflecting newspaper columns, are from the fictitious Medford Meteor. Riha’s book begins with the shooting, but after the trial concludes in Chapter 5, the rest is fiction. “Those characters come face to face at the end.” “Sixteen years later, one of these kids grows up and decides to take revenge for the murder of her father,” Riha says. The heroine of Riha’s book is Iris Greenlee. Hubbard’s widow, Dora, had two children, Delman, 2, and Iris, 4, at the time of the killing. The Mail Tribune at the time wrote an editorial titled, “A Travesty of Justice.” A trial held three months later resulted in the acquittal of Martin. ![]() Hubbard, the county’s first game warden, was fatally shot near Elk Creek when he went with a constable to arrest Loris Martin for game law violations. In this latest effort, Riha combines adventure with a moral that weighs law against injustice and explores forgiveness, the author said. His first book, “Rookies in the Wild," is a guide to backpacking based on hikes he took with his son, two novices who had lots of new gear and no experience. He’s been an editor at Better Homes and Gardens and Country Homes. He’s had fiction published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Summerset Review and other publications. Riha has written for Esquire, GQ, This Old House, Men’s Journal and other magazines. “I saw the article and I said, ‘I’m going to do something on that,’ ” Riha recalls. Ashland author John Riha has written and published “The Bounty Huntress,” a historical novel that takes the real-life slaying of Jackson County’s first game warden as a starting point.Ī December 2014 Mail Tribune article on the reaction of family members to the 100th anniversary of the killing of the grandfather they never knew, Arthur Hubbard, sparked Riha to undertake the book at a time he’d been considering several large writing projects. ![]()
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