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Flood and Fire
Flood and fire have shaped southwest Oregon in both damaging and beneficial ways. Periodic flooding typically occurred when warm, heavy rains and snowpack combined in …
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Floor Plan of Red Men Hall, Portland
This pamphlet, “Floor Plan Elevation and Description of Building for Willamette Tribe No. 6 Improved Order of Red Men,” was created in 1919 to …
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Folklife Bibliography
Aarne, Anti, and Stith Thompson. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Folklore Fellows Communication No. 180. Helsinki, Finland: Academic Scientarum Fennica, …
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Forest Products and Agricultural Goods
Until the development and expansion of the high-tech industry in the 1980s, Oregon’s economy remained heavily dependent on exporting forest products and agricultural goods. Despite …
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Fort Astoria, 1813
This lithograph is a reproduction of a drawing by Gabriel Franchère, published in his Journal of a Voyage on the North West Coast of America …
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Fort Bidwell
Fort Bidwell in Northeastern California (Surprise Valley), built in 1863 and seen here in 1877, was a secure site for white settlers traveling along the …
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Fort Clatsop
This photo shows a replica of Fort Clatsop, the modest structure in which the Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805-1806. Probably built of …
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Fort Klamath
Colonel C. S. Drew, First Oregon Cavalry, was sent in 1862 to scout a location for an Army post to protect settlers in the new …
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Fort Klamath and the Road to Bloody Point
During the Civil War, the Oregon legislature asked Congress for a military post to keep the Indians of the Upper Klamath Basin under control. In …
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Fort Nez Perce
This drawing of fur trading at Fort Nez Perce (also known as Fort Walla Walla) was drawn by Joseph Drayton, one of several artists hired …
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