Ewing Young was a Santa Fe trader, a Rocky Mountain Man, a California livestock trader, and one of the first Americans to permanently live …

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Kalliah Tumulth, also called Indian Mary, was a Cascade (Watlala) Chinook born in October 1854 to a signer of one of the main Oregon treaties. …

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Oregon has a number of officially designated symbols, ranging from those that are essential to the state government, such as the seal and flag, to …

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Siskiyou Pass, including the 4,310-foot-high Siskiyou Summit of I-5 that is located a short distance east of the original historic pass, is the highest and …

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John Beeson had been in Oregon only three years, but his outrage at the treatment of Native Americans by whites led him to become a …

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An army officer, educator, writer, and naturalist, Benjamin Alvord was commander of the U.S. Army’s District of Oregon during the Civil War. His name is …

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The Applegate Trail, first laid out and used in 1846, was a southern alternative to the western-most segment of the Oregon Trail, with its users …

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The arrival of Latinos in Oregon began with Spanish explorations in the sixteenth century. In 1542-1543, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, sailing from the port of Navidad …

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Fort Umpqua was a small but important post in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur-trade empire in the Oregon Country. The farthest south of the company’s …

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“Salmon” originally meant Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), a species native to the North Atlantic rim and Arctic Ocean above Western Europe. In 1972, …

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