For thousands of years, the Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers have been important to the Klamath Indian culture and essential to their subsistence.  In …

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Male politicians slowly expanded their concept of progress to include the enfranchisement of women, but women had already developed a broader agenda that they wanted …

Oregon History Project

Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857. …

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Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) is one of the great conifers of the western United States, if not the world, in stature (the largest …

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The Scottish botanist David Douglas described the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) as the “most princely of the genus.” Sugar pines are the tallest …

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This painting was done in 1884 by J. E. Stuart, a prolific and popular American artist of landscapes, portraits, and American Indians. It depicts a …

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This 1962 aerial photograph depicts a section of Beaverton bordered by the Sunset Highway between Cornell and Murray roads. The cluster of buildings near the …

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This detail comes from a 1994 U.S. Bureau of Land Management map titled “Surface Management Responsibility.” It shows federally owned lands in southeastern Oregon. The …

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Euro-American settlers in the Willamette Valley of the 1830s and 1840s had no instructions to follow in selecting their farmland. They observed that prairie lands …

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The map above shows the surveyed portion of the Oregon Territory as of October 21, 1852. It was prepared by John B. Preston, first surveyor …

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