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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dan Matney wrote: "Oregon is teaming with stories,
interactions and all that. My people interacted with other people just like
every one else's did, I would like to see us all put this big puzzle
together."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I only would like to point out that in the late
1930s there were researchers from the Works Progress Administration taking
stories down from pioneers and pioneer descendants all over Oregon, county by
county, I belive. Many libraries, at least Douglas County Public Library
has theirs, have copies of these</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>interviews...and some are posted on the
Internet. For those who want to ferret out those "big puzzle" Oregon
pioneer stories, these interviews are fascinating.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Bob Casebeer, <A
href="mailto:casebeer@jeffnet.org">casebeer@jeffnet.org</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>