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  • The Columbia River Trade Network

    Alexander Ross, an American fur trader, provided this description of the Columbia River trade rendezvous in August 1811. He estimated that approximately 3,000 Indians had gathered in …

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  • The Contact Period

    The late Archaic lifeways of the Indian nations encountered by Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1805–1806 already displayed signs of cultural change resulting …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Controversial Sucker

    When author William Kittredge was a high school student in Klamath Falls, he and his friends caught suckers in Klamath Lake with unbaited hooks. “Somebody …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Corps of Discovery in American and Oregon History

    Anniversary commemorations of important events in our nation’s past predictably generate great interest. Centennial and bicentennial commemorations attract even greater public interest, because the passage …

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  • The Dalles

    The Dalles is one of the oldest permanently occupied places in Oregon, significant to Native people for over ten millennia and to Euro-American settlers since …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Dalles Civic Auditorium and Veterans Memorial

    On April 7, 1922, four years after the armistice ended World War I, an emotional crowd packed into The Dalles Civic Auditorium and Veterans Memorial …

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  • The Dalles Dam

    The United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed The Dalles Dam between 1952 and 1957. The dam was a significant part of the federal government's …

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  • The Dalles Dam

    This 1963 photograph of The Dalles Dam was published in the March 1968 edition of the Portland Chamber of Commerce’s monthly magazine, Greater Portland Commerce …

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  • The Dalles Roadcut Site

    In the early 1950s, archaeologist Luther S. Cressman and University of Oregon students excavated what they called the Roadcut Site near Celilo, before water from …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Death of Peter French: Clashes of Cattlemen and Settlers

    Written by Michael N. McGregor One spring day in 1881, when Malheur Lake was filled with mountain runoff, some of its water spilled into nearby …

    Oregon History Project

3230 results

  • The Columbia River Trade Network

    Alexander Ross, an American fur trader, provided this description of the Columbia River trade rendezvous in August 1811. He estimated that approximately 3,000 Indians had gathered in …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Contact Period

    The late Archaic lifeways of the Indian nations encountered by Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1805–1806 already displayed signs of cultural change resulting …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Controversial Sucker

    When author William Kittredge was a high school student in Klamath Falls, he and his friends caught suckers in Klamath Lake with unbaited hooks. “Somebody …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Corps of Discovery in American and Oregon History

    Anniversary commemorations of important events in our nation’s past predictably generate great interest. Centennial and bicentennial commemorations attract even greater public interest, because the passage …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Dalles

    The Dalles is one of the oldest permanently occupied places in Oregon, significant to Native people for over ten millennia and to Euro-American settlers since …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Dalles Civic Auditorium and Veterans Memorial

    On April 7, 1922, four years after the armistice ended World War I, an emotional crowd packed into The Dalles Civic Auditorium and Veterans Memorial …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Dalles Dam

    The United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed The Dalles Dam between 1952 and 1957. The dam was a significant part of the federal government's …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Dalles Dam

    This 1963 photograph of The Dalles Dam was published in the March 1968 edition of the Portland Chamber of Commerce’s monthly magazine, Greater Portland Commerce …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Dalles Roadcut Site

    In the early 1950s, archaeologist Luther S. Cressman and University of Oregon students excavated what they called the Roadcut Site near Celilo, before water from …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Death of Peter French: Clashes of Cattlemen and Settlers

    Written by Michael N. McGregor One spring day in 1881, when Malheur Lake was filled with mountain runoff, some of its water spilled into nearby …

    Oregon History Project