Welcome to the Timeweb
The Oregon Historical Society’s Timeweb uses over 800 records from the Society’s archival collection to tell the story of Oregon over time. The site builds interactive timelines to create historical webs of ideas, events, and places. To begin exploring, choose a Spotlight, Era, or Featured Record or build your own Oregon story by selecting topics you would like to know more about.
Begin Exploring
Start with a Spotlight
Cowboy Culture in Eastern Oregon
What makes a cowboy a cowboy? His clothes? His hat? Cowboy gear tells us only part of what it was like to live and work in the wide-open spaces of eastern Oregon in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The cowboy life is available to us in photographs, books, movies, and oral histories as part of our cultural identity… Read More
Begin with an Era
- 1750-1799
- Pre-Contact to 1799
- 1800-1847
- Exploration and Resettlement
- 1848-1880
- Territory and Statehood
- 1881-1920
- Industrial Expansion
- 1921-1949
- Depression and War
- 1950-Today
- Metropolitan Expansion
- 1985-Today
- Modern Oregon