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Report from Joel Palmer, 1854

Report from Joel Palmer, 1854

Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon, wrote this report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on September 11, 1854. It describes a massacre …

Oregon History Project
Reservations & Tracts of Land Purchased from the Various Indian Tribes

Reservations & Tracts of Land Purchased from the Various Indian Tribes

By 1864, Oregon representatives of the U.S. government had bought up most of the traditional tribal land in Oregon. The government recognized Indian ownership of …

Oregon History Project
Resettlement

Resettlement

During the 1860s and 1870s, non-Indian migrants established a few small settlements across central and eastern Oregon. The gold-seekers were first, setting up camps in …

Oregon History Project
Resettlement

Resettlement

Because the Pacific Northwest was a focus of international commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, people of many different cultures came to …

Oregon History Project
Residents of Agness in front of Post Office

Residents of Agness in front of Post Office

In 1897, a post office was established in the mining town of Agness, thirty-two miles from the mouth of the Rogue River in Curry County. …

Oregon History Project
Restructuring the Timber Economy

Restructuring the Timber Economy

In October 1979, the bottom fell out of the wood-products market. Over the next three years, lumber prices dropped by more than 48 percent. The …

Oregon History Project
Return of the C'wam

Return of the C'wam

For thousands of years, the Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers have been important to the Klamath Indian culture and, more so than salmon, essential …

Oregon History Project
Rev. Jason Lee's Diary

Rev. Jason Lee's Diary

­­­This is the diary of Rev. Jason Lee (1803-1845), one of the first Methodist missionaries to travel on the Oregon Trail and settle in Oregon Country. …

Oregon History Project
Richland Villager Headline, It's Atomic Bombs

Richland Villager Headline, It's Atomic Bombs

On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman made a radio announcement informing listeners that the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, …

Oregon History Project
Rigging Slinger's Revenge

Rigging Slinger's Revenge

Rigging Slinger's Revenge, a parody of Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, 'The Raven,' was written by Lon Minkler in the 1970s and recorded in 1986 …

Oregon History Project