Search results for "History of Oregon" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... and commercial interests in the Oregon country as well as residual ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main ... establishing a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River at Fort ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the blackberry/raspberry ... (which work as antioxidants), and a source of iron. The boysenberry is a ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 22:33, 20 November 2023
- | residence = Eugene, Oregon | other_names = "Pre" ... | birth_place = Coos Bay, Oregon, US | birth_name = Steve Roland Prefontain ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- State University (1951-1964), the University of Iowa (1964-1970), and Oregon ... In addition to his wins, he was known for devising a system of full ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- The Klamath are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area ... With the loss of their resources and federal support services, as ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 23:18, 3 March 2023
- in the Cascade Volcanoes Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific Northwest ... over 4,600 acres (7.2 mi² or 18.6 km²) of ski-able terrain; Timberline ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- California and central Southern Oregon. They are currently divided ... American education and recommended use of Indian reservations to protect ...23 KB (3,542 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- consider a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of ... The Cuckoo's Nest. Despite the success of Cuckoo's Nest, his next ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
- a significant role during the Modoc War of 1872-1873. Born near southern ... After learning of a Modoc plot to assassinate a group of government ...16 KB (2,613 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six ... square km) intermontane plateau covers most of Nevada and over half of Utah ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- States National Park located in southern Oregon; the only national park in ... ties to the area and the natural habitat of the plant and animal life found ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in ... and its tributaries, mainly for purposes of providing irrigation water ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- spanning fifty years, she made a total of seventy-three films. musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born to butcher ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief ... Until his death, he would put this image of himself to use in an attempt ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... and for making this stance the centerpiece of 1968 presidential campaign ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- Blackberry is the common name for any of the various perennial plants ... although in raspberries and other species of the subgenus Idaeobatus, the ...19 KB (2,739 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas and is Canada ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Part of a submerged mountain chain, the archipelago has more than ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- California, United States, in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, specifically ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- Jogging is a form of trotting or running which is conducted at a slow ... Running may be considered more of a competitive sport, while jogging ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 06:42, 5 April 2024
- Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries. The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown ...16 KB (2,208 words) - 00:36, 29 November 2023
- organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
- Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming ... , with a drainage basin of some 86000|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us , a large portion ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- Alden Partridge originated this novel system of education which combined civilian ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- Fisheries management refers to a governmental system of management ... and technology are still at an early stage of development and the development ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in ... who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... ancestral homeland in Wallowa Valley in Oregon, promised to them at an earlier ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... collected in 1923 under the title Mirrors of Moscow. Later that year she ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- Skateboarding is the act of riding on or performing tricks with a ... media as an extreme sport—can be a form of art, a hobby, or a method of ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 22:58, 23 April 2023
- Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. News of his death caused worldwide ... to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...16 KB (2,294 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
