Julia Ruuttila was a labor and investigative journalist, a poet and fiction writer, and a union, peace, and justice activist who lived all but a …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This October 16, 1961, letter was sent to Louis Ambler, Regional Director of the Federal Housing Administration in San Francisco, to protest the Housing Authority …

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Dr. Marie Equi was a fiercely independent Oregon physician who was engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth and early …

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Like other western states, Oregon has a sizable public land base, with approximately 53 percent of its 61 million acres in federal lands, most of …

Oregon History Project

The commerce-oriented exploration of the North Pacific Coast by European and American sea captains became active during the 1790s. The 1792 incursions into the mouth …

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Dick Fosbury changed the high jump forever when he won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games using a new style of his own …

Oregon Encyclopedia

(1946-) Ron Herndon is a long-time activist for minority rights and educational opportunities in Portland. Born in Kansas, Herndon arrived in Portland in 1968 to …

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For much of their fishing history in Oregon, Native Americans used hand-operated haul seines. A fish seine is a horizontal net that has floats holding …

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The Siskiyou Forest Reserve was created on March 2, 1907; within two days, it was renamed the Siskiyou National Forest. The boundaries of the forest …

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In all of American history, only two states have been formed from older states that were already admitted to the Union:  Maine (from Massachusetts, …

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