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Transporting logs to the mill was challenging in the days when ox teams dragged timber to the nearest stream for floating most of the way to the mills.…
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Not far from Ashland, Ore., there are two deep, dead-end holes in a Siskiyou mountain.It was September of 1883 when Chinese railroad workers started…
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Nearly four decades after completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Upper Klamath River Basin remained virtually untouched by modern commerce at…
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The usual explanation for why the railroad passes through Medford, Ore., instead of Jacksonville is Jacksonville’s failure in 1884 to pay a $25,000…
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It can't really be called "the last great train robbery," because it was a failure as a robbery. But the DeAutremont brothers (Ray, Roy and Hugh) made…