Search results for "History of Oregon" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... and commercial interests in the Oregon country as well as residual ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • California and central Southern Oregon. They are currently divided ... American education and recommended use of Indian reservations to protect ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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