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Letter to the Editor, Difficulties in Oregon
John Beeson was a humanitarian activist who spent much of his life trying to protect Indian rights. He wrote this letter to the New York …
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Letter to the Editor, Unjust to Women, 1908
In this letter to editor Clara Bewick Colby of the Woman’s Tribune, author Louisa Dana Haring of Chicago, Illinois expressed her distaste for laws …
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Letter to the Editor, Voting No
This letter to the editor written by E. F. Riley was published in the May 29, 1915 issue of the Oregon Voter, a conservative …
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Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
At least ten years before 2004, the 200th anniversary of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark setting out from St. Louis to explore the nation's new …
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Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair
One of Portland’s grandest parades started at the corner of Sixth and Montgomery streets at 10 a.m. on June 1, 1905. Mounted police led off, …
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Expedition
No exploration of the Oregon Country has greater historical significance than the Voyage of Discovery led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Historians …
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Lewis and Clark Exposition
Portland staged its first and only world's fair from June 1 through October 15, 1905. During those four and a half months, 1,588,000 paying visitors …
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Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
In late 1805, the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived on the Pacific Coast, the homeland of the Clatsop and Chinook people. The …
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Lewis & Clark College
Lewis & Clark College, a private and academically selective liberal arts college in Portland, is recognized nationally for its excellence in undergraduate teaching, its …
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Lewis & Clark Law School
In 1883, British scholar Richard Hopwood Thornton and Matthew Paul Deady, Oregon's sole federal district court judge, took steps to found a night law school …
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