The illustration above shows a party of otter hunters near Coos Bay in 1856. It was common to shoot otter from the shore as depicted …

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Friends and fans called Fred Eckhardt a muse, an icon, a founding father, and the “cosmic giggle of craft beer.” Based in Portland, he …

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Otto Frohnmayer was a prominent attorney, civic leader, and philanthropist who played an important role in Medford’s transformation from a small rail and fruit-growing …

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In the annals of Oregon jurisprudence history, Otto Richard Skopil Jr. was among the most revered and important federal judges to serve in the region. …

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Our Mountain, a name given by local residents to a previously unnamed peak, is located 5.4 miles west-southwest of O'Brien in the Siskiyou National Forest …

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The commerce-oriented exploration of the North Pacific Coast by European and American sea captains became active during the 1790s. The 1792 incursions into the mouth …

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Two transportation routes, rail and road, appear in this photoraph taken near Cottage Grove about 1910. The bridges span the Coast Fork Willamette River, and …

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One of the first dwellings in Portland, this cabin was named for William Overton.  In late 1843, Native American guides took Overton and his companion, Asa …

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Owen Murphy Panner was a lawyer and federal judge in Oregon from the mid-twentieth century into the first decades of the twenty-first. He was the …

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For thousands of years before Euro Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, the Multnomah Indians lived on Sauvie Island on the lower Columbia River. In …

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