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Scope and Contents Contents include various stories and investigations into the Blue Bucket myth and it's potential whereabouts within Oregon. Documents included in this section:Loose leaf map outline of the theorized blue bucket mine locations. With special interest in Crook, Wheeler, Grant, Harney, and Lake's counties. One page.Legend of the Blue Bucket Mine Newspaper article from the Blue Mountain Eagle, April 18, 1919, five pages. Using the perspectives of blue bucket...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings from the Oregon Sunday Journal dated April 30, 1939 and May 5, 1939. Discussing the Newport Crab Festival which started in 1938, with discussions about the cost being fronted by the city dipping into the advertising funds and volunteer work by the fisherman in the city to invest into the towns industry and stimulate revinue in its earlier phases. The expected turnout for the event was estimated to be around 30,000 people. With the ceremony including the crowning of the...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous  clippings of newspaper articles obtained by the WPA with a variety of topics including pioneering, legends, activities, and mysteries. Documents include: Wild Life In Oregon Written by William V. Wells From the Atlantic Monthly about 1854? Thirty-six pages. October 1855Reminiscences of Oregon Pioneers Five pages. From Pendleton, Oregon, 1937. Written by Eugene Woods October 31, 194035 Years Ago Lake County Examiner, obtained from the...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous stories and transcribed newspaper stories compiled from various W.P.A. Workers. Documents include: Webfoot Whoppers, I No author(s) or date(s) identified, nine pages.Webfoot Whoppers, III No author(s) or date(s) identified, eight pages.Webfoot Whoppers, 2 No author(s) or date(s) identified, sixteen pages.Last Rites For Laura J. Howard, Ashland Pioneer From the Medford Mail Tribune May 4, 1939. Newspaper clippings attached to paper...

Scope and Contents Contents include transcribed copies of different categories of newspaper articles copied by WPA workers. Documents included: Massacre-Cannibalism Transcribed by Lydia Littell, November 8, 1940. Four pages. With the contents from the following sources: The Oregon Statesman, November 12, 1860, November 26, 1854. The Snake Massacre, by Nicholas Lee.Cattle Horse Herding From the Oregon Statesman, July 20, 1859. Transcribed by Lydia Littell, November 5, 1940. One page....

Scope and Contents Stories obtained from numerous newspaper articles, personal writings, and letters transcribed by various W.P.A. workers. Documents include:The Liquor Law From the Oregon Spectator, July 9, 1846. Transcribed by Eugene Woods, November 25, 1940. Two pages.What Can't Hook By Manly M. Banister, no date(s) identified. Seven pages.Fight Out West From the Oregon Statesman, May 9, 1851. One page.A Section of Land From the Oregon Weekly Times, November...

Scope and Contents Contents include stories obtained from numerous newspaper articles, personal writings, and letters transcribed by various W.P.A. workers with a focused effort to obtain personal recollections pertaining to folklore. Documents include:Canfield And His Indian No author(s) or interviewer(s) identified. Thirteen pages. An in depth summary of Rolly Canfield, with the adventures alongside his companion identified as by the name pronunciation "Me Eatum Ham Too". Canfield never married,...