Author: Oregon Pioneer Association. Reunion
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Lydell Baker
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Oregon Pioneer Association
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Oregon Pioneer Association
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
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Author: Oregon Pioneer Association
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230032757
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Languages : en
Pages : 172

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...As stated in the headline to this diary the winter of 186162 was the most severe of any known in the Pacific Northwest from its earliest settlement. The first snow fall in the Willamette Valley occurred on November 15. Previous to that date it had rained hard almost continuously for several days in all the valleys on the coast, and at the same time there was a heavy fall of snow in the higher altitudes in the Cascade and Coast ranges. Then a sudden change to unusually warm weather occurred which melted the snow in these ranges and caused a flood in all the streams draining the valleys. Between the second and sixth of December the Willamette river was fifty-five feet above low water mark at Oregon City, and was at extra flood stage its entire length, thus causing a loss of property estimated at the time at a half million dollars. At Oregon City alone the damage was easily over $170,000. Then about the middle of December a "cold snap" came and lasted for fully two months, much of the time below freezing point, and occasionally below zero. During this period there were heavy falls of snow all over the country, both east and west of the Cascade range, and it remained on the ground in the western and southern Oregon valleys over fifty consecutive days, and in eastern Oregon a much longer time, with the temperature frequently below zero, and occasionally as much as thirty degrees. Altogether the floods and extreme cold weather following, prolonged as the latter was, caused a loss of property approximately one million dollars; and worst of all, a number of lives by drowning and freezing.--George H. Himes, Secretary. MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.. Portland, March 13, 1916. The Board of Directors of the Oregon Pioneer Association...

Author: Oregon Pioneer Association. Reunion
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Pages : 814

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Author: Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.

Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313353395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West. The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native American relations. Barbara Alice Mann's The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion offers riveting accounts of four specific incidents: The 1763 smallpox epidemic among native peoples in Ohio during the French and Indian War; the cholera epidemic during the 1832 Choctaw removal; the 1837 outbreak of smallpox among the high plains peoples; and the alleged 1847 poisonings of the Cayuses in Oregon. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Mann's work is the first to give one of the most controversial questions in U.S. history the rigorous scrutiny it requires.

Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in 2005 in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the treaty between the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Confederated Tribes and the U.S. government on June 9, 1855, as well as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s visit to the tribal homeland in 1805 and 1806. Volume 120 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series