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The Contact Period
The late Archaic lifeways of the Indian nations encountered by Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1805–1806 already displayed signs of cultural change resulting …
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The Controversial Sucker
When author William Kittredge was a high school student in Klamath Falls, he and his friends caught suckers in Klamath Lake with unbaited hooks. “Somebody …
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The Corps of Discovery in American and Oregon History
Anniversary commemorations of important events in our nation’s past predictably generate great interest. Centennial and bicentennial commemorations attract even greater public interest, because the passage …
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The Dalles Dam
This 1963 photograph of The Dalles Dam was published in the March 1968 edition of the Portland Chamber of Commerce’s monthly magazine, Greater Portland Commerce …
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The Dalles Roadcut Site
In the early 1950s, archaeologist Luther S. Cressman and University of Oregon students excavated what they called the Roadcut Site near Celilo, before water from …
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The Death of Peter French: Clashes of Cattlemen and Settlers
Written by Michael N. McGregor One spring day in 1881, when Malheur Lake was filled with mountain runoff, some of its water spilled into nearby …
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The Department of the Columbia, 1892
This map detail of southeastern Oregon comes from an 1892 map of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho titled “Map of the Department of the Columbia.” The …
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The Eclipse of Canneries
The decline of salmon canneries was propelled by social and natural developments. The industry’s initial boom lasted until 1884, but then falling harvests and market …
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The Electric Century: The Promise of Technology
The Lewis and Clark Exposition at night was a blaze of light. One hundred thousand electric bulbs lit the walkways and outlined the buildings. The …
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The Exposition and Native Americans
On the 1905 fair grounds, the most prominent presence of Native Americans was inanimate—the bronze statue of Sacagawea that would later stand in Portland’s Washington …
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