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Nathaniel Wyeth's expeditions to Oregon

Nathaniel Wyeth's expeditions to Oregon

A businessman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Wyeth played an important role in the Euro American colonization of the Pacific Northwest. As a result of his …

Oregon History Project
National American Woman Suffrage Association

National American Woman Suffrage Association

This photograph features delegates to the annual National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Portland, June 29 through July 5, 1905. Although most of the …

Oregon History Project
National Election Ticket, California, 1864

National Election Ticket, California, 1864

This election ticket from California is from the 1864 presidential election, when Republican incumbent President Abraham Lincoln faced Democratic challenger Gen. George B. McClellan—Lincoln’s former …

Oregon History Project
National Forest Timber for Sale

National Forest Timber for Sale

These documents describe an early timber sale in the Malheur National Forest. The first document is a newspaper advertisement for the sale, which took place …

Oregon History Project
Native American Cultures

Native American Cultures

Then Coyote said, People shall spear salmon, they will go to get food, to one another will they go to get food; one another they …

Oregon History Project
Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up

Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up

When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …

Oregon History Project
Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards

Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards

When the labor market opened up during World War II, more than 65,000 Native Americans worked for war industries or joined the armed forces. Historian …

Oregon History Project
Natural and Cultural Foundations

Natural and Cultural Foundations

Old photographs and rotten piers of Columbia River canneries have become monuments to a lost era. They stand as symbols of ethnic communities, gritty laborers, …

Oregon History Project
Natural Resources and the Railroad

Natural Resources and the Railroad

The California gold rush served as the great catalyst for Oregon agricultural growth and commercial development during and after the territorial period. The hundreds of …

Oregon History Project
Negotiating the Surrender

Negotiating the Surrender

This sketch by Guy Howard depicts a scene from the surrender of Nez Perce Indians (Nimi’ipuu) to the U.S. Army in early October 1877. Guy …

Oregon History Project