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  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
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    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    years (before 1860) and the Willamette Valley where the vast majority of early pioneers established

  • Families on the Move : The Powledge Family of Meriwether County, Georgia, 1820-1900

    Creator:
    Roberts, Nancy A.
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    The migrations of four generations of the Powledge family centering around Meriwether County, Georgia were described within the context of social and economic forces in the United States in 1820 to 1900. The family was representative of thousands of families that migrated westward. The migrations were found to correlate with...
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    North Dakota pioneers around 1930 in an article, "Migration to an American Frontier." Hudson traced the

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

    Creator:
    Lundgren, Stacy J.
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    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...
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  • An ethnographic crossing : voices from the Latino community in Yamhill County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Nicklous, Nan Gilmore
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    Changing demographics in Oregon, accompanied by a rising Latino population, serve to dispel myths that we live in homogeneous, monolithic communities. Migration studies indicate migration is reshaping communities, contributing to ethnic diversity thus challenging our notion of identity and culture. Through the medium of oral histories and ethnography, this study...
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    the pioneers on the Oregon Trail, they too came in search of freedom, of opportunity, of adventure

  • Anthropological Pecovery, Analysis and Identification of Historic Burials in Two Southern Oregon Cemeteries

    Creator:
    Jenkins, Paul Christy
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    Federal legislation and U. S. Army Corps of Engineer regulations require that human burials be removed for reinterment if they are to be inundated as a result of dam construction. The final phase of the Applegate Lake Project was the archeological removal, analysis and identification of two historic Euro-American cemeteries,...
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  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

    Creator:
    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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    also reflected in cemetery selection during the years that both the Pioneer and St. Paul’s cemeteries

  • The Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial as Interpreted by Museums on the Oregon Trail

    Creator:
    Fackler, Amy E.
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    This study describes and analyzes Oregon Trail related exhibits of eleven museums and two interpretive centers that are geographically located along the Oregon Trail from Baker City, Oregon to Portland, Oregon. The exhibits were featured at the facilities during the 1993 Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial, a celebration that was initiated and...
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    PERSPECTIVES Whatever led the emigrants to pioneer in Oregon, their stories have left lasting impressions on

  • Museum education programs : Portland, Oregon

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    Scherer, Leigh Anne Whitney
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    In this study I explored the variety of educational opportunities available in museums. Next, I examined the museum education programs in the Portland, Oregon area and described what types of opportunities are available to teachers. Finally, I made suggestions for teachers on how to best access museum programs and for...
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    see how "pioneers" lived. The hall offers changing exhibits including "The Pioneer Family of the

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

    Creator:
    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    body of written material on Tiller but some of its early pioneers were available for interviews. These

  • Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

    Creator:
    Russell, John A.
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    Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
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    ) Willamette River 299 J. Origins of pioneer geographical place-names 302 K. Pioneer uses for hogs; Hog