Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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One of the more interesting things about Oregon history is how much of a role “colorful characters” played in it. Until a few dozen years ago, historians didn’t much like talking about the contributions of prostitutes, swindlers, shanghaiers, and other underworld characters to Oregon’s history, preferring to talk about brave pioneers and clean-living homesteaders and noble missionaries and such. So it’s no surprise that the name and identity of the first woman of European extraction to set fo...
The Willamette Meteorite is the most famous heavenly body to end up in Oregon, but it’s far from the only one. Here are some of the others: Sams Valley Meteorite, Jackson County: 1880s and 1890s The area of Sams Valley, about 10 miles north of Medford, apparently was the target of a meteorite that broke up on entry into the atmosphere. There have been roughly half a dozen pieces of it found over the years, including three found in the 1880s by a gold panner, a 15-pound metallic lunker found i...
