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		<title>&#8220;Oregon: End of the Trail&#8221; &#8212; the 1940 WPA guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Among the silver linings of America&#8217;s Great Depression was the federal Work Projects Administration. The WPA commissioned all that wonderful art, with which most people are familiar, but it also hired hundreds of writers in various state writing projects.
The Oregon Writers Project&#8217;s greatest accomplishment was creation of a single book, &#8220;Oregon: End of the Trail,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two more books about Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read these older novels before your trip or carry along to read at the beach, er, the coast:

Honey in the Horn. By H.L. Davis,            1935. Davis placed Oregon on the literary map when this became the first        [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to know about Oregon hiking guides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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The good ones are all written by one guy: Bill Sullivan.
Bill has hiked every trail in Oregon worth hiking, and a few that aren&#8217;t. He&#8217;s walked from one end of the state to the other and chronicled the adventure in Looking for Coyote.
But he&#8217;s best known here for his &#8220;100 Hikes&#8230;&#8221; series of trail guides, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opal Whiteley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dreamily charismatic            young woman from the little southern Willamette Valley logging town of Cottage Grove, Opal Whiteley became a national sensation in            1920 with publication of her extremely odd diary, which tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books about Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.therealoregon.com/2007/05/20/books-about-oregon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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If you&#8217;re looking            for books to read while you&#8217;re vacationing in Oregon, start with the late Ken Kesey&#8217;s &#8220;Sometimes a Great Notion.&#8221; 
 The essential            Oregon novel, it was written by Kesey before [...]]]></description>
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