Horner Museum oral history collection, 1964-1992 (bulk 1979-1991).

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Horner Museum oral history collection, 1964-1992 (bulk 1979-1991).

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The Horner Museum Oral History Collection (OH 10) consists of approximately 290 oral history interviews recorded on audiocassettes; transcripts, tape logs, and reference materials for the interviews; and administrative records of the Horner Museum's oral history program. The collection includes a transcript, tape log, and/or some biographical information for most of the recorded interviews. The collection includes interviews conducted by the Horner Museum as well as interviews conducted by others that were deposited with the Horner Museum. Many of the interviews were conducted by Jennifer A. Lee or Royal G. Jackson, a College of Forestry faculty member. The oral history interviews conducted and assembled by the Horner Museum represent a variety of topics; many of the interviews address the faculty, students, and academic programs of Oregon State University; forestry and natural resources in Oregon; and ethnic minorities in Oregon. Projects include the Oregon State University College of Forestry and the Microbiology Department; the Siuslaw and Winema National Forests; CH2M Hill; student life at Oregon State University; the Cant Ranch in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument; Native Americans in Oregon, including members of the Burns Paiute Tribe in Harney County, Oregon, and other ethnic minorities; the Benton County (Oregon) Courthouse; the Battle of the Little Bighorn from the perspective of the Northern Cheyenne descendants; doctoring in Corvallis; and the diversification of a resource-based economy in Bend and Deschutes County, Oregon. Interviews with residents of Harney County address intereactions between the Paiute Indians and early settlers in the Burns area, early 20th century life in Burns, and construction of the Oregon Northwestern Railroad between Seneca and Burns. Several of these interviews were transcribed by staff and volunteers of the Harney County Library in 2006. Notable Oregon State faculty and administrators with interviews in the collection are: Alan B. Berg, Eva Blackwell, Walter B. Bollen, Fred Decker, John C. Garman, Delmer M. Goode, E.B Lemon, Harriet Moore, Miriam Orzech, Dan W. Poling, T.J. Starker, Betty Lynd Thompson, and Chih H. Wang. Interviews of all the founders of the CH2M Hill engineering firm, Burke Hayes, Holly A. Cornell, Archie Rice, Clair A. Hill and James C. Howland, are included in the collection. The administrative records include a 1992 draft of a publication of abstracts for the oral history interviews; photographs, primarily of the narrators and interview subjects; background and reference materials; signed release forms; project files; and correspondence and related documentation of the oral history program, including blank forms. The photographs include color slides, b/w prints and negatives, and color prints.

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Horner Museum.

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Established by Oregon Agricultural College and Professor John Horner in 1925, the Museum of the Oregon Country was a place where people could "see the world" without leaving Corvallis, Oregon. It was renamed the John B. Horner Museum of the Oregon Country in 1936, three years after he died, and became commonly known as the Horner Museum. The museum housed an eclectic mix of artifacts, photographs, and archival materials; had an active oral history program from the late 1970s through...

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The first forestry class was taught at OSU in 1896 and ten years later the first four-year degree program was established. Forestry was elevated to school status in 1913, with George Peavy as its first dean, and became a college in 1984. Graduate work was authorized in 1921; the Ph. D. program began in 1959. The Deans of the College have included: George Peavy (1910-1940), Earl G. Mason (1936-1942), Paul M. Dunn (1942-1955), Walter McCulloch (1955-1966), Carl H. Stoltenberg (1967-1990), George W...

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Basque sheepherders immigrated from northern Spain and southwestern France to southeastern Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada from the 1890s until the early 1920s. They worked as itinerant herders on the mountain ranges of Harney County until the 1930s and often spent the winters in Basque boarding houses or hotels, such as the Star Hotel in Burns. The Taylor Grazing Act, drought, and the depression brought an end to the sheep industry in Harney County. The Basques of Harney County, Oregon, Oral History ...