Record Details
page 393
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_006b http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,36 |
| Title | page 393 |
| Relation | The Great River of the Northwest : A Stream with a Future |
| Date | 2004-03-02 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from black and white photocopies using Dosadi Acquire Version 2.57 on Ricoh IS450se document feed scanner. Scanned images saved as grayscale and as 2 tone black and white multi-page tiffs. 266,082 bytes Omnipage 14 used to OCR black and white multi-page tiffs and generate Word documents for full text access. Grayscale multi-page tiffs split with libtif tiffsplit script. Tiff edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 1 - 1.00 - 255 to 10 - 0.85- 255 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | of Indians, who paddled in canoes to the ocean; today It Is a vast commercial thoroughfare, along whose banks railroad trains rush, and thriving towns now take the place of Indian villages. "Where rolls the Oregon." How came this name? A hundred reasons are given. Capt. Jonathan Carver, the explorer, calls It the Oregon, and so many times has it been referred to in that way that Investigators have decided it comes from the Spanish Aragon, a name given to the whole of the Northwest by the... |
