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Alonzo Hancock and Miomastodon Jaw
This photograph was taken by Oregon Journal photographer Edmund Lee in March 1953. It shows Alonzo Hancock with the jawbone of a miomastodon that he …
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A Look Back At Portland Jazz: When the Joint Was Jumpin'
Written by Michael N. McGregor At 240 N. Broadway in Portland, a stone's throw from The Rose Garden where the Trail Blazers play their home …
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A Magnificent Country
In the southeastern quadrant of Oregon—which largely coincides with the limits of Lake Harney, southeastern Deschutes, and all but the northernmost tip of Malheur County—the …
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American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory
The mythology that (mis)characterizes the American settlement of the West as an epic tale of virtuous triumph over a dangerous and exhilarating wilderness was fueled …
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Americans Return to the Oregon Country
American farming families first began to stream west over the Oregon Trail to the green Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. They followed a well-established …
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America's Pacific Vision
For sparsely settled Oregon, the result of new railroads, new irrigation canals, new farms, and new logging techniques was a dramatic 63 percent rise in …
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An Accurate Map of North America, c. 1780
Thomas Bowen, a British cartographer and engraver, produced his An Accurate Map of North America from the Latest Authorities in the early 1780s. It is an …
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An Economic Turnaround
World War I marked a turnaround in what had been a prolonged period of depressed prices for lumber and agricultural products in Oregon. When Germany …
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An Ethnically Divided Workforce
Given the intense hostility toward Asians in the West, it is not surprising that of the immigrant groups who were active in the salmon canning …
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A New City Charter
By 1912, reformers were campaigning for a new city charter, which they said would make government more efficient and accessible to average citizens by having …
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