Seid Back was a Chinese immigrant, merchant, and labor broker whose reputation for honesty, philanthropy, business acumen, sense of community, and patriotic zeal made him …

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For much of their fishing history in Oregon, Native Americans used hand-operated haul seines. A fish seine is a horizontal net that has floats holding …

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The enactment of Senate Bill 10 in 1969 was a crucial step on the path to Oregon’s landmark Senate Bill 100, passed in 1973, …

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Signed into law on May 29, 1973, Oregon Senate Bill 100 created an institutional structure for statewide planning. It required every Oregon city and county …

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This photograph of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy reading the Oregon Journal was taken on August 26, 1951. The senator was the featured speaker at the …

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This transcript is from a 1991 interview oral historian Clark Hansen conducted with Maurine Neuberger, the only woman ever elected by Oregonians to the …

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Seneca is a small town in Bear Valley near the Blue Mountains and the Malheur National Forest in Grant County. Located on Highway 395 between …

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John Newton Williamson, Crook County stockman, attorney, and U.S. congressman, provided the following sentiments for An Illustrated History of Central Oregon in 1898: “Crook County …

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This letter is indicative of the hostility that some early settlers had for Native people. A band of Athapaskan Indians, known as the Kwatami, lived …

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Seufert Brothers Company was the leading salmon packer on the Middle Columbia River from the mid-1890s to the mid-1950s. Beginning in 1867, industrial processing and …

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