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After the Expedition
The Lewis and Clark story did not end with the return of the expeditionary force. What happened to the Expedition’s records, materials, and members after …
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Agency Lake Ranch
Upper Klamath Lake, at 142 square miles, is Oregon’s largest fresh-water lake. It is fed by the Williamson and Sprague Rivers and several small creeks …
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A Hard Country to Settle
Lacking the rich gold or other precious-metal deposits of neighboring areas, southeastern Oregon’s development took a slower course. A few hardy settlers had begun grazing …
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A Helping Hand from Washington
Farms, forestry, factories, and railroads meant that Oregon in the early twentieth century was a great place to seek a living or a fortune. There …
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A Land and Its People
Southwestern Oregon stretches from the high Cascades west to the Pacific Ocean, and from the California state line north to the Coquille River. Two principal …
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Albert Kuckup on the 1855 Wasco Council
This document is a transcript of a land claims hearing held on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in August 1931. Albert Kuckup, an elderly member of the …
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Albina, Portland, 1909
This photograph shows the intersection of Vancouver and Russell in 1909, when Albina had been a part of Portland for eighteen years. From its incorporation …
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Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973
Beginning in the 1960s, the City of Portland, with the cooperation of the Portland Development Commission (PDC) and Emanuel Hospital, began to lay the groundwork …
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Albina Riot, 1967
What began as a political rally to stir the African American community to “revolution” in Irving Park on Sunday, July 30, 1967, turned into two-nights of …
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Alejandro Malaspina, 1885
This engraving of a portrait of the Spanish navigator, Alejandro Malaspina, is found in an 1885 version of his account of the trip, A Political-Scientific …
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