Author: Dorys Crow Grover
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684099102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Much as men rushed to the California gold fields, a small group of proud and visionary cattlemen heard of the boundless open and free range land of Central and Southeastern Oregon in the mid-1800s and brought their herds there. Sometimes called “Cattle Kings,” or “Cattle Barons,” they ruled with painstaking vigor, occasional cruelty, and tenacity the untitled land. Thousands of their cattle and horses grazed on the boundless prairies. Four men who built cattle empires were John Devine, Peter French, Bill Hanley, and Henry Miller. One of these four barons eventually owned it all. Smaller ranchers were tolerated but bun-carrying vaqueros discouraged intruders, particularly sheep men and homesteaders. Their empires lasted until the mid-1900s, but during their time they made the era legendary in the history of the region.

Author: David Braly
Publisher: Mediaor Company
ISBN: 9780942206005
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Author: Oregon Pioneer Association
Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: William Wallace Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Jesse Edward Grinstead
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle stealing
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Author: Federal Writers' Project
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Oregon contains some quaint features, including a chapter entitled “Tall Tales and Legends” and a recipe for huckleberry cakes. The impact of the depression on the people of the Beaver State is discussed, and the beauty of the state is emphasized from the tips of the Cascadian Mountains to the agricultural region of Willamette Valley.

Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Stanley Buchholz Kimball
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Robert Aquinas McNally
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496204220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native America's peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872-73, one of the nation's costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. Although little known today, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. The war did not end with the last shot fired, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma, where they found peace even more lethal than war. The Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a "peace policy" toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country's past.

Author: Edward Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962260995
Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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