Historic Oregon People

Vale, Oregon Celebration, 1941.

Vale, Oregon Celebration, 1941.

 

D.B. Cooper – Disappearing in the Wilderness

John Day – Frontiersman

DeAutremont Brothers – Wanna Be Train Robbers

Joseph Goff Gale – Pioneer & Politician

John L. Hatcher – Frontiersman

Joseph Meek

Joseph Meek

Joseph Lafayette Meek – Trapper to Politician

Moses Embree “California Joe” Milner – Scouting the West

Ferd Patterson – Living and Dying by the Gun

Sumner Pinkham – Dead at the Hands of a Gunfighter

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