I’d always heard of Les Schwab, but I wasn’t familiar with the company or its products until I was in Washington State for an off-roading event with my local press association. Nate Baer, the ...

Les Schwab, who emerged from an orphaned childhood to build a billion-dollar tire empire in the deserts of Central Oregon, died today in Prineville. He was 89. From a single shack in Schwab's hometown ...

Les Schwab, 89, a cowboy-hatted icon of Oregon who turned a dilapidated tire shop he bought in 1952 with borrowed money into a regional empire, died Friday in Prineville, Ore. Schwab had been in poor ...