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A Distinct Community Takes Shape
Many southeastern Oregon ranches strived for self-sufficiency. Nevertheless, the High Desert’s cattle kingdom necessarily had several small communities, but a very few of them grew …
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A Forest Named Winema
One quarter of Oregon consists of national forest lands. Within the drainage of the Klamath Basin, there are seven national forests, ranging from south-central Oregon …
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A Framework for Learning
The non-Indian educational systems in the Pacific Northwest began with the Hudson’s Bay Company and New Englander John Ball, who taught the children of fur …
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A Hard Country to Settle
Lacking the rich gold or other precious-metal deposits of neighboring areas, southeastern Oregon’s development took a slower course. A few hardy settlers had begun grazing …
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A Helping Hand from Washington
Farms, forestry, factories, and railroads meant that Oregon in the early twentieth century was a great place to seek a living or a fortune. There …
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A Land and Its People
Southwestern Oregon stretches from the high Cascades west to the Pacific Ocean, and from the California state line north to the Coquille River. Two principal …
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A Look Back At Portland Jazz: When the Joint Was Jumpin'
Written by Michael N. McGregor
At 240 N. Broadway in Portland, a stone's throw from The Rose Garden where the Trail Blazers play their home …
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A Magnificent Country
In the southeastern quadrant of Oregon—which largely coincides with the limits of Lake Harney, southeastern Deschutes, and all but the northernmost tip of Malheur County—the …
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A New City Charter
By 1912, reformers were campaigning for a new city charter, which they said would make government more efficient and accessible to average citizens by having …
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A New Legal Landscape
The presence of Americans to the Oregon Country in the early 1840s led to a new legal landscape, imposed first in the Willamette Valley and …
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