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  • Ben Wright Massacre of 1852

    These two accounts of the same event, one written by a white pioneer, the other by the son of a Modoc woman and a …

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  • Bernard (Bernie) Fagan (1949-2023)

    Bernie Fagan, was a successful collegiate soccer coach at Warner Pacific College, and a professional soccer player for the Portland Timbers. His camps …

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  • Bernard Daly (1858–1920)

    Bernard Daly did much to improve the lives of Oregonians, particularly in Lake County. He was a doctor, banker, and rancher and served as a …

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  • Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

    Bernard Malamud, one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, is best known for his fiction about Jewish life in New York, such …

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  • Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926)

    Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become a social reformer and one of Oregon's first women doctors with a medical degree. Some Oregon women, …

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  • Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926)

    Because Bethenia Owens-Adair made the overland journey from Missouri to Oregon with her family in 1843, she did not begin her formal education until age …

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  • Betty Chilstrom (1924–2014)

    Betty Chilstrom was an Oregon painter who used a distinctive impressionistic style to document buildings and scenes in the downtown and southeast neighborhoods of Portland …

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  • Betty LaDuke (1933-)

    Oregon artist and writer Betty LaDuke has gained an international reputation for her murals, paintings, and sketches. Her work tends to express socialist progress and …

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  • Betty Roberts (1923-2011)

    Betty Roberts was a thirty-two-year-old housewife with four children when she went back to college in 1955. Her decision went against the wishes of her …

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  • Beverage Container Act (Bottle Bill)

    The Oregon Beverage Container Act of 1971, popularly called the Bottle Bill, remains one of the most visible and popular legacies of Oregon’s environmentalism in …

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