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Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
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Description for half a century after Lewis and Clark visited its mountains and valleys, disturbed only by the trapper and hunter. But the great westward migration in the mid-1800's brought the farmer to plow the unfurrowed earth and the miner to excavate minerals buried in far-flung mountain ranges and vast deserts. Loggers and mill operators moved ever westward to the last great stands of virgin timber. And merchants trekked the Oregon Trail, eager to provide services and goods. As the Northwest changed...
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