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Creator:: Gelser, Sara Anne Acres
Abstract:: Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: possible, or even desirable, to write a feminist history. On the one hand, writing a history that centers

Creator:: Hylton, Lindon B.
Abstract:: This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ports of Portland and San Francisco, or between those cities and their international markets. In

Creator:: Steward, Judith A.
Abstract:: Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: western dancing. Whether in Minneapolis or the heart of cattle country, 'cowboy' styles are widely

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Agricultural Science ....................... 5 Pure, Basic, or Applied? The Aim of Agricultural

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