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Russel Farnham (1785-1832)
Russel Farnham, an American adventurer, explorer, and fur trader, was sent by John Jacob Astor in 1811 to establish Fort Astoria, the first United …
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Seaside
Seaside is a city on the north Oregon coast at the mouth of the Necanicum River, north of Ecola State Park. The community straddles …
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Seneca
Seneca is a small town in Bear Valley near the Blue Mountains and the Malheur National Forest in Grant County. Located on Highway 395 between …
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Sk'in
Sk’in was a significant Native American settlement located on the north side of Celilo Falls near the present town of Wishram, Washington. Its name—the Columbia …
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South Fork John Day River
From its headwaters in the fir and ponderosa pine forests of Grant and Harney Counties, the South Fork John Day River flows northward for about …
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Spray
The hamlet of Spray is located on the banks of the John Day River among the basalt rimrock of north-central Oregon, about thirty-six miles southeast …
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The Dalles
The Dalles is one of the oldest permanently occupied places in Oregon, significant to Native people for over ten millennia and to Euro-American settlers since …
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The Dalles Dam
The United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed The Dalles Dam between 1952 and 1957. The dam was a significant part of the federal government's …
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Tualatin peoples
Tualatin (properly pronounced 'twälə.tun in English) was the name of a collection of related but independent villages whose members spoke a dialect of Northern Kalapuya, …
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United States v. Tom (1853)
In United States v. Tom, the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court questioned the principle of federal supremacy over American Indian affairs in the territory and …
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