• August History Pub: Joel Palmer and The Shaping of Oregon

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

    Lang's new book, The Country for Me: Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon, is the first full biography of Joel Palmer, a Canadian-born American who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. Palmer's […]

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