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Oex_frontier_main Capturing Oregon's Frontier
April 09, 2013, 8:00 PM

Thousands of forgotten glass plate negatives from the turn of the twentieth century bring new insight to rural Oregon's frontier history.

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April 9, 2013 Oex_frontier_main
Capturing Oregon's Frontier

Thousands of forgotten glass plate negatives from the turn of the twentieth century bring new insight to rural Oregon's frontier history.

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March 19, 2013 Oex_mccall_main
Tom McCall

Tom McCall, Oregon’s chief executive from 1967 to 1975, may go down in history as the state’s most productive governor. He was certainly the most interesting.

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Rajneeshpuram

In 1981, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a spiritual leader from India, and thousands of his disciples moved to Wasco and Jefferson Counties. On what had been the Big Muddy Ranch, the “sannyasins” set out to build a new city, a utopian community in the desert -- Rajneeshpuram.

Thousands of people from around the world gathered here to celebrate life. They worked hard and transformed the landscape. And more than a few hoped to spend the rest of their days at this place.

But by 1986, they were gone.

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