Portland’s primacy as the region’s leading port was not assured in the town’s early days.  The Hudson’s Bay Company was well established at Fort Vancouver …

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This excerpt from an 1874 report by N.A. Cornoyer, agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation, describes the development of a new geography of Native identity …

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By the late 1960s, societal upheavals—associated in part with the Vietnam War—encouraged individuals to go back to the land, as the saying went. Some people …

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The construction of multilane highways dated from the 1930s, with the construction of Barbur Boulevard—running south from Portland on the route of an abandoned electric …

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The photograph above pictures the general merchandise store of Robbins & Purington in the ranching town of Drewsey, Harney County, as it looked about 1890. …

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Robert Adams’s photographs of the American West are incisive views of industrial expansion and regional transformation. Based in Astoria, Adams charts in his work the …

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Robert Belloni was interviewed by James Strassmaier of the Oregon Historical Society as part of the U.S. District Court of Oregon Series.  In this transcribed …

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Robert C. Belloni was a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon from 1967 to 1999. His ruling in United …

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Love him or hate him, Robert Deniston Hume, called R.D. for short, was a compelling figure in Oregon history. Born in 1845 into a family …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Bob Smith was a Republican who served in the U.S. Congress, representing Oregon’s Second District from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999. He …

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