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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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    constructive criticism. They include David Voss, Robbin Johnston, John Wells, Sheila Forster, Rick McClure and

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

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    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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    constructive criticism. They include David Voss, Robbin Johnston, John Wells, Sheila Forster, Rick McClure and

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

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    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Archeological Project: Phase III Assessment. Abstract approved: i.Redacted for Privacy David Brauner The

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

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    Chapman, Judith Sanders
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Archeolpzigal Project: Phase III Assessment. Abstract approved: (Redacted for Privacy David Brauner The

  • 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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    : Redacted for Privacy David R. Brauner Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    Abstract approval : l.ccrcf .z y x_ David R. Brauner Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on

  • Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stepp, David
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    The study presents the results of a descriptive analysis of the skeletal remains of 66 individuals recovered from the Fuller and Fanning Mound sites, located on the Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and original field notes have...
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    Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF David Stepp for

  • Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in the North Santiam Subbasin, On the Western Slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range

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    Kelly, Cara McCulley
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    This thesis examines prehistoric land use patterns of the entire North Santiam subbasin, located on the western slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range. The objective of this analysis is three-fold: 1) to contribute to reconstructing the cultural chronology of the area; 2) to address the use of raw material by...
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    Privacy ACKNOWLEGMENTS I wish to express sincere thanks to my committee members: Barbara Roth, David

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

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    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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    and support in this project. I thank my committee members Roberta Hall, David Brauner, William

  • Rodeo Cowgirls : An Ambivalent Arena

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    Oliver, Audra Leah
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    The term "cowboy" was closely bound to American image long before the 1990s. Rodeo claimed the image of the cowboy from the earliest contests to the latest and pledged itself to patriotism almost as early. This historical study was conducted viewing rodeo as a subculture and relating women's role in...
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    ," in Essays of David M. Potter, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacker, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973