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Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

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Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann

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Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...

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Masters Thesis

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to this research project. From Oregon State University: Dr. Robert Krahmer, who identified the wood
Material Expressions of Class, Status and Authority amongst Commissioned Officers at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, 1856-1866

Creator:

Eichelberger, Justin E.

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During the 19th century the United States Army was a military institution characterized by a hierarchical system of authoritative, social and economic inequality between members of its different military grades. Although necessary for insuring military discipline within the Army this system of inequality also influenced the non-military social lives of...

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Dissertation
The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

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Boulware, Brooke L.

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A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...

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Masters Thesis

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differences in morturary landscapes from a 150 year period (1770-1920) in Hanover, New Hampshire. In an