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  • The Coastal Lumber Industry

    It was clear by the last decades of the nineteenth century how logging was altering the coastal landscape. In 1872, writer Frances Fuller Victor visited …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Cockstock Incident

    In 1903, the Oregon Historical Quarterly reprinted this article, which appeared in the Reveille, a St. Louis, Missouri, newspaper, on October 21, 1844. The …

    Oregon History Project

  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

    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

3266 results

  • The Coastal Lumber Industry

    It was clear by the last decades of the nineteenth century how logging was altering the coastal landscape. In 1872, writer Frances Fuller Victor visited …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Cockstock Incident

    In 1903, the Oregon Historical Quarterly reprinted this article, which appeared in the Reveille, a St. Louis, Missouri, newspaper, on October 21, 1844. The …

    Oregon History Project

  • 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