The Town Club, housed in a Mediterranean Revival building at Twenty-first Avenue and Southwest Salmon Street in Portland, is among the most prominent women’s …

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Bigfoot is a large and mysterious humanoid creature purported to inhabit the wild and forested areas of Oregon and the West Coast of North America. …

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The Willamette River and its extensive drainage basin lie in the greater Cascades geological province, extending from British Columbia to northern California. The river and …

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The figure of Coyote is prominent in Native American traditional narratives in Oregon and throughout the West. This is hardly surprising, given the widespread distribution …

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Chief Halito, commonly shortened to Chief Halo (meaning “having little” or “needing little”), was leader of the Yoncalla Kalapuya tribe and was married to Du-Ni-Wi, …

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Lewis and Clark called them the "Wappato Indians," the people who inhabited the villages that lined the riverbanks in the "Wappato Valley," the resource-rich lowlands …

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"Founded on a bluff and run on that principle," as historian Jim Covert writes, the University of Portland was born on the morning of September …

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Matt Groening, who grew up in Portland, created The Simpsons, the longest running prime time television show in history. The animated show chronicles …

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The Portland Paramount Theatre once dominated the city’s Great White Way, a series of brightly lit cinemas that dazzled downtowners along Southwest Broadway Street. The …

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From his arrival in Oregon in about 1864 until his death in 1914, James Beatty was a highly regarded member of Portland’s African American …

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