This sounds like a very interesting talk on the Malheur Occupation!
Marcia
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From: Benton County Historical Society & Museum <irene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Exhibition closes with special lecture
Date: October 11, 2016 at 7:00:58 PM PDT
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Benton County Historical Society presents
Bill Robbins to give a talk at the Museum
William G. Robbins, Ph. D., Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at
Oregon State University, will give a talk titled,
The Malheur Occupation and Public Lands in the West onSaturday, October 29,
2016 at 2 pm in the Moreland Gallery at the Benton County Historical Museum
in Philomath.
This presentation will complement the closing day of High Desert Dreams: the
Lost Homesteads of the Fort Rock Basinphotography exhibition by Rich Bergeman.
Dr. Robbins' discussion will place the events of January and February 2016 in
historical context and interrogate the militants' constitutional and
historical arguments in light of Harney County's documented and legal
history.
The talk will describe the unique geography of the Harney Basin, the coming
of the great cattle empires in the 1870s, President Theodore Roosevelt's
establishment of the Malheur Lake Bird Refuge in 1908, periodic droughts,
over-stocked ranges, the failures of dry land farming (1910-1915), the sale
of large cattle properties to the federal government during the Great
Depression, and-beginning in the mid-1930s-the gradual restoration and
rehabilitation of the expanded and renamed Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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1101 Main Street, Philomath, OR 97370
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday
10 am to 4:30 pm
Phone: 541-929-6230
Website: www.bentoncountymuseum.org
Admission is always free! Donations gladly accepted.
Benton County Historical Society & Museum, 1101 Main Street,PO Box 35,
Philomath, OR 97370
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