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Reconnaissance for a Military Road
This map charts the western portion of the Oregon Trail as well as the route of the 1859 Wallen expedition, which explored eastern Oregon in …
Report by William H. Rector, 1862
This report describes a conflict between Umatilla Indians and white settlers over northeastern Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley in the summer of 1862. It was written …
Report by W.V. Rinehart, 1879
This excerpt is from a report written on August 15, 1879, by W.V. Rinehart, agent for the Malheur Indian Reservation. It describes the removal of Paiute …
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 …
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 …
Rival Townsites in Portland Region, 1825-1850
Portland’s primacy as the region’s leading port was not assured in the town’s early days. The Hudson’s Bay Company was well established at Fort Vancouver …
River Indians and Reservation Indians
This excerpt from an 1874 report by N.A. Cornoyer, agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation, describes the development of a new geography of Native identity …
Schedule of Vouchers issued on account of the Indian War in the Territories of Oregon and Washington in the years 1855 and 1856
This document was created for the U.S. Treasury in 1861 as a record of reimbursement claims by people and businesses in Oregon and Washington who …
Sea Otter
This engraving is one of the illustrations included in Charles M. Scammon’s The Marine Mammals of the North-Western Coast of America, published in 1874. …
Seaside House
This photograph, which dates to approximately 1875, features guests arriving at or departing from Seaside House in Seaside, Oregon. Transportation tycoon Benjamin Holladay constructed the Italian Villa …Interpretive Essays
Interpretive essays use primary documents from the Oregon Historical Society archives to help readers imagine the events, people, and issues that shaped Oregon history.
