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Masuzo Maruyama (1903–1941)
Masuzo Maruyama boarded the Iyo Maru in Kobe, Japan, on March 15, 1903, his twenty-fifth birthday. When he went ashore in Seattle ten days later, …
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Samuel L. Simpson (1845-1899)
Sam Simpson was a singer of love songs to Oregon. In 1899, Judge John Burnett called him “the [Robert] Burns of Oregon…who could make the …
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Talent
Once called Wagner Creek, Talent is located in southwestern Oregon between Ashland and Medford. Situated near the confluences of Wagner and Anderson Creeks with …
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High Desert
Oregon’s High Desert is a place apart, an inescapable reality of physical geography. The region forms an extensive area that is substantially different in climate, …
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Joel Palmer (1810–1881)
Joel Palmer spent just over half of his life in Oregon. He first saw the Oregon Country from a wagon in 1845 and spent three …
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