Lacking the rich gold or other precious-metal deposits of neighboring areas, southeastern Oregon’s development took a slower course. A few hardy settlers had begun grazing …

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In 1913, twenty-nine women who lived in Portland's Alameda neighborhood formed the Alameda Tuesday Club to do charitable work, serve the community, and socialize …

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The Albany area—situated at the confluence of the Calapooia and Willamette rivers and surrounded by one of the broadest and most level stretches of the …

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American farming families first began to stream west over the Oregon Trail to the green Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. They followed a well-established …

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For sparsely settled Oregon, the result of new railroads, new irrigation canals, new farms, and new logging techniques was a dramatic 63 percent rise in …

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Exposition visitors could walk through the 50,000 square feet of the Oriental Exhibits Building—the second most costly at the fair—to view the products of China, …

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Bibliography Adams, Tom. “Bibliography of Articles Relating to Jedediah Strong Smith.” Pacific Historian 19 (1975): 69-72. Aikens, Melvin. Archaeology of Oregon. Portland: U.S. Department …

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This rare photograph shows part of the mining town of Auburn, located in northeastern Oregon about eight miles southwest of Baker City. The photo is …

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Ben Selling—an early Portland merchant, elected official, and philanthropist—truly reflects the inscription on the Skidmore Fountain in the city where he lived and worked for …

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Bibliography—Columbia River Fishery Ackerman, Lillian A. “Kinship, Family, and Gender Roles.” In The Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 12: Plateau, ed. Deward …

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