Oregon Experience
The Wild West Way
September 09, 2010, 8:00 PM
The Pendleton Round-Up will celebrate its centennial this Fall. Dedicated volunteers, tribal involvement and thrill-a-minute entertainment have made the Round-Up one of the oldest and most prestigious rodeos in the world. Oregon Experience looks back at the first hundred years of Round-Up!
Join Oregon Experience for special screenings of "Pendleton Round-Up: the Wild West Way," Tuesday, September 7th at 4:30 and 6:30 pm at the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, OR. The screenings are free and open to the public.
Share your stories of the Pendleton Round-Up.
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August 26, 2010
- Reub Long's Oregon Desert
Back in the early '60s, Russ Jackman, a retired OSU extension agent, and Reuben Long, a colorful Fort Rock Valley rancher, collaborated to create a book. The result, "The Oregon Desert," was unique.
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August 5, 2010
- Searching for York
The Lewis & Clark Expedition - a pivotal moment in American history. But the story of York, a slave to William Clark and comrade on this journey, has been obscured by omission and stereotype. Searching for York paints a portrait of this unofficial member of the Corps of Discovery as it discusses the ways in which history is written.
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July 22, 2010
- Bull Run
Few other cities in the world have water as pure and as well protected as Portland. For nearly 115 years, an ingenious, gravity-fed system has delivered mountain rainwater from an isolated river called the Bull Run. Yet the rich history of Portland’s water supply has unfolded largely unbeknownst to the people it serves.
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Sep 9: The Wild West Way
Look back at the first hundred years of Round-Up!
- Producer's Journal
- Sagebrush Symphony Centennial
- by Nadine Jelsing | 09/03/2010
- There’s something wonderful going on in an old warehouse near Burns. Venture inside and you’ll find community volunteers building a violin. And this is no ordinary violin. In 1910 a classically trained Boston violinist named Mary Dodge arrived in Burns and started teaching music to the local children. Burns was soon home to the Sagebrush Symphony [...]
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- Series Archive:
- White Plague
- The Spirit of Tek
- Opal Whiteley
- Vortex I
- Sagebrush Symphony
- Bull Run
- A Cuisine of Our Own
- Kam Wah Chung
- Road to Statehood
- The Logger's Daughter
- Searching for York
- The River They Saw
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Art Makers
- Lola G. Baldwin
- Leo Adler
- C.E.S. Wood
- The Beach Bill
- Beervana
- Oregon at War
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady
- The Braceros
- William Gladstone Steel
- Bill Bowerman
- Sam Hill
- Reub Long's Oregon Desert
- Abigail Scott Duniway
