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Articles from the November 30, 2013 edition


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  • “Blue Ruin” drove Oregon to drink – and to Prohibition

    Nov 30, 2013

    First cabin By Finn J.D. John Most people know Prohibition in the United States started in 1920 when the Volstead Act went into effect. But in Oregon, Prohibition started quite a bit earlier than that. Actually, it started before Oregon was even a state. In 1844, the Oregon Territorial Government became the first in the United States to outlaw the use, manufacture or sale of booze. The full story of Oregon Territory’s first experiment with Prohibition will probably never be known; not a lot of written history has come down to us from early 1...

  • Out on the McKenzie Trail

    Nov 30, 2013

    McKenzie River Reflections...