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Proving Up and Pulling Out: Archaeology and History of Early 20thCentury Homesteading in Southwestern Oregon

Creator:

Lundgren, Stacy J.

Abstract:

The Forest Homestead Act of 1906 precipitated one of the final rushes for free land in American history. A nascent land management agency, the USDA Forest Service, created a systematized process for the review and documentation of purported forest homestead claims. One hundred years later, the forest-homestead examination files of...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Talking back: voices from an empty house: the interior space of the Frantz-Dunn House as artifact

Creator:

Bryant, Kathleen J.

Abstract:

The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins, Oregon is an intact, well-preserved example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger patterns of expansion in America...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

interviews with the relatives of the pioneer families and selected Hoskins residents. Special interest was