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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 …
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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 …
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The Department of the Columbia, 1892
This map detail of southeastern Oregon comes from an 1892 map of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho titled “Map of the Department of the Columbia.” The …
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The Dude Ranch
The Dude Ranch was Portland’s premier jazz venue in the days just after World War II, when jazz clubs proliferated along North Williams Avenue, …
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The Eclipse of Canneries
The decline of salmon canneries was propelled by social and natural developments. The industry’s initial boom lasted until 1884, but then falling harvests and market …
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The Electric Century: The Promise of Technology
The Lewis and Clark Exposition at night was a blaze of light. One hundred thousand electric bulbs lit the walkways and outlined the buildings. The …
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The Exposition and Native Americans
On the 1905 fair grounds, the most prominent presence of Native Americans was inanimate—the bronze statue of Sacagawea that would later stand in Portland’s Washington …
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The Famous Rogue River Valley
Landscape artist Gibson Catlett created this bird’s-eye view map of Grants Pass in 1911 for a railroad development company that was also selling land in …
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The Firebrand
From 1895 to 1897, a group of farmers in Sellwood, a town on the Willamette River southeast of Portland, published an influential anarchist newspaper. …
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The First Arrivals
The first people moved into southeastern Oregon between about 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. By that time, the glaciers had melted into small remnants, and …
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