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Engeman, Richard H. (2009). The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of The Useful, The Curious, and The Arcane. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-899-0.

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List of topics covered in the book The Oregon Companion not yet in Wikipedia (number in parens is number of incoming links):

  • Leo Adler (1895-1993), Jewish Baker City newsman and millionaire, philanthropist, home is part of Baker Heritage Museum
  • Agriculture in Oregon--loads to add for dozens of crops and livestock
apples
barley
beans (green)
berries
blackberries
boysenberries
cattle
cheese
cherries
Christmas trees
corn (sweet)
cranberries
dahlias
dairy industry
emus/ostriches/rheas
farmer's markets
filberts
flax
wine and winemaking
hay
hops
iris
loganberries
marionberries
nurseries
oats
onions
peaches
pears
peas
plums/prunes
potatoes
raspberries
grass seed and other seed crops (sugarbeet, clover)
sheep
strawberries
turkeys--formerly Oregon grew 30% of West Coast supply of turkeys
walnuts
wheat
  • Manufacturing in Oregon--does this cover fur trade, timber, aluminium, coal (Coos Co.), iron (Oswego), mercury, nickle (Riddle), papermaking, plywood, shipbuilding, high-tech? Maybe add to a natural resources section of Economy of Oregon, or ???
alder--furniture, pulp and papermaking
cascara
cedar
cottonwood--crates and boxes, excelsior, pulp and paper
Douglas-fir
beer and brewing
hemlock--pulp and paper, trim, some lumber, rayon
larch--lumber, flooring, plywood, pulp, utility poles
oak--Oregon white
pine--lodgepole, ponderson western white, and sugar
Port Orford-cedar
redwood
spruce
tree farm--concept promoted by Weyerhaeuser
Salmon--Chinook (King), Chum (Keta), Coho (Silver), Sockeye (Red, also Kokanee)
Dungeness crab
Lamprey
Oysters
Smelt
Sturgeon