Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations of Surrealism and Cubism …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Louise Mohan Bryant’s eight years in Oregon decided the direction of her life. Born on December 5, 1885, she arrived in the state in 1907 …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Louis Forniquet Henderson was one of Oregon's most important early botanists. During his long and vigorous career, he collected plants in virtually every corner of …

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In September 1803, Meriwether Lewis descended the Ohio River on a keelboat that had been built to his specifications in Pittsburgh. Getting the fifty-five-foot-long boat …

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This map was published in a 1911 book titled Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States. Maps like this appear …

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Louis Jerome Simpson was a civic-minded Oregonian who served the south coast, the state, and the nation in his active years as builder and advocate. …

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Louis Southworth came to Oregon in 1853, a time that was less than hospitable to African Americans. Most people who traveled the Oregon Trail by …

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In 1949, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers included this map as a representation of the Lower Columbia River Fisheries Development Program in a “review …

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Before human engineering altered the upper Klamath Basin, water flowed from Upper Klamath Lake into Link River, a short stream that emptied into Lake Ewauna, …

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The Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge complex includes the Upper Klamath, Klamath Marsh, and Bear Valley Refuges in Oregon and the Lower Klamath, Tule Lake, …

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