Bonnie Hill was an important figure in the herbicide-spraying controversies in Oregon forests during the 1970s, her efforts contributing to a permanent ban on using …

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This photo shows Idaho cowgirl Bonnie McCarroll being thrown from a horse named Silver during a bucking contest at the 1915 Pendleton Round-Up. It was …

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Bonnie Merrill, a dancer, teacher, and choreographer, was a founder and creative force of Portland’s modern and contemporary dance scene. She had a profound …

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In 1932, with the Northwest lumber industry hit especially hard by the Depression and with “Hoovervilles” springing up in the city’s Sullivan Gulch and elsewhere, …

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Oregon's first book was Nez-Perce's First Book, an octavo-sized pamphlet published in 1839 by the mission at Lapwai in present-day Idaho (then a part …

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This photograph of lumber waste at the Booth Kelly Lumber Mill, in Springfield, Oregon, was taken in 1929 by Ralph Penniwell Cowgill, an engineer for …

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This particular “Bootsie” cartoon appeared in the Northwest Defender, a Portland-based African American weekly, in October of 1964, a year after a church bombing …

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Violinist, teacher, composer, and conductor Boris Sirpo was best known as the founder of the Portland Chamber Orchestra, which he directed for twenty years. He …

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The Bosco-Milligan Foundation of Portland was founded in 1987 by Jerry Bosco and Ben Milligan to protect their collection of architectural elements and to further …

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A bowpicker is a fishing boat that was developed on the Columbia River for the salmon gillnet fishery. In the nineteenth century, fishers on the …

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