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The Applegate Trail
In 1843 three brothers, Jesse, Lindsay, and Charles Applegate and their families, joined the emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail. Times had been hard back …
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The Arrival of Looking Glass
This excerpt from Army officer Lawrence Kip’s journal describes the dramatic arrival of Chief Looking Glass at the 1855 Walla Walla Council. Looking Glass had …
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The Astorians and the Hudson’s Bay Company
The Astorians were the first fur traders to arrive. New York entrepreneur John Jacob Astor sent two groups of clerks to the Columbia River country—one …
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The Baltimore Colony
This hand-written document is an excerpt from the first draft of Binger Hermann’s (1843-1926) autobiography, titled “The Story of a Busy Life.” It describes pioneer …
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The Booster City and Business Leaders
Portland started the twentieth century with a flourish of self-promotion. After a half century as the most important city in the Pacific Northwest, Portlanders were …
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The Bo's'n's Whistle
Click here to see a pdf version of this issue. The Bo’s’n’s Whistle was an in-house publication distributed to employees of the Oregon Shipbuilding …
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The Coastal Landscape
The Oregon Coast is a sliver of land between the mountains and the sea, almost three hundred miles long and an average of about fifty …
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The Coastal Lumber Industry
It was clear by the last decades of the nineteenth century how logging was altering the coastal landscape. In 1872, writer Frances Fuller Victor visited …
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The Cockstock Incident
In 1903, the Oregon Historical Quarterly reprinted this article, which appeared in the Reveille, a St. Louis, Missouri, newspaper, on October 21, 1844. The …
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The Columbia River Trade Network
Alexander Ross, an American fur trader, provided this description of the Columbia River trade rendezvous in August 1811. He estimated that approximately 3,000 Indians had gathered in …
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