The fur trade was the earliest and longest-enduring economic enterprise that colonizers, imperialists, and nationalists pursued in North America. It significantly shaped North American history, …

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The Umpqua River, approximately 111 miles long, is a principal river of the Oregon coast, draining an expansive network of valleys in the mountains on …

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Ewing Young was a Santa Fe trader, a Rocky Mountain man, a California livestock trader, and one of the first Americans to permanently live in …

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Kalliah Tumulth, also called Indian Mary, was a Cascade (Watlala) Chinook born in October 1854 to a signer of one of the main Oregon treaties. …

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The city of Coquille (pronounced ko-KEEL), a wood-products manufacturing community and the Coos County seat, is located in southwest Oregon about twenty-five miles up the …

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Oregon has a number of officially designated symbols, ranging from those that are essential to the state government, such as the seal and flag, to …

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Siskiyou Pass, including the 4,310-foot-high Siskiyou Summit of Interstate-5 that is located a short distance east of the original historic pass, is the highest and …

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John Beeson had been in Oregon only three years, but his outrage at the treatment of Native Americans by whites led him to become a …

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An army officer, educator, writer, and naturalist, Benjamin Alvord was commander of the U.S. Army’s District of Oregon during the Civil War. His name is …

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The Applegate Trail, first laid out and used in 1846, was a southern alternative to the western-most segment of the Oregon Trail, with its …

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