David George Foster was a master teacher, an innovative artist, and an independent thinker. For thirty-five years, beginning in 1957, he was a professor of …

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David G. Talbot has the distinction of being the longest serving head of the state parks in Oregon, from 1964 until 1992. During his tenure, …

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Oregon native David Imus is a master mapmaker who started his mapmaking company in Eugene more than twenty-five years ago. His work has attracted international …

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Rivers have always fascinated Oregon author David James Duncan, who was born in east Portland in 1952. Though he now lives in Montana on an …

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David McCosh, an important Oregon painter and influential teacher, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1903. He spent a year studying liberal arts at …

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This photograph of David Sohappy, Sr. (1925–1991) was taken during a Yakama tribal trial stemming from a federal sting operation undertaken by the National Marine …

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Born and raised on the Yakama reservation in south-central Washington and a member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, David Sohappy …

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Coffee cake, donuts, butterhorns, cinnamon rolls, snack cakes, and, of course, bread. These were all products of the Davidson Baking Company, founded in 1914 by …

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In the late 1840s, explorer and surveyor David Thompson wrote a journal of his travels over the past half century. He meticulously recorded his findings, …

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British fur agent, surveyor, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson was born on the outskirts of London in April 1770. His Welsh father died before Thompson …

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