Leo Adler was an innovative seller of newspapers and magazines, a self-made millionaire, and a strong advocate first of Baker and then Baker City, …

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Leonard W. Levy, who completed his professional career at Southern Oregon University, was a prolific student of American legal and constitutional history. He wrote …

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Leonard Wallulis was one of the most colorful lumberjacks in Oregon history, putting on Paul Bunyan demonstrations and winning contests in front of thousands of …

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Though he spent only the last thirteen years of a long career in Portland, celebrated bassist Leroy Vinnegar became a central figure in the …

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Leslie "Les" AuCoin broke a Republican monopoly on Oregon’s First Congressional District in 1974 when he became the first Democrat since statehood to win the …

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This engraving by the French firm Thierry Frères is based on a sketch by the Russian scientist Alexandr Postels. It was included in the atlas …

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This 1979 photograph of Les Schwab is part of the Oregon Journal Collection at the Research Library of the Oregon Historical Society.  Les Schwab, a …

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Founded in 1952 as a two-man tire store in Prineville, Les Schwab Tire Centers has become a Fortune 500 Company with well over a …

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Letitia Carson, a nineteenth-century farmer and homesteader, was one of the first Black women to settle in Oregon. In the 1850s, she brought two successful …

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Oscar F. Wilson wrote this letter from Butteville, Oregon, to his friend M. Daugherty in West Alexander, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1854, describing his overland …

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