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A biographer, she said, ex-
plores what someone did and
when they did it, while a novelist
explores why they did it and how
they might have felt about it.
“I hope I expanded a vision
of Duniway by looking at how
landscape, relationships, spiritu-
ality and work helped her be that
eminent Oregonian,” she said.
Kirkpatrick said Duniway’s
“persistent and sometimes
crusty personality” impacted the
suff rage movement in Oregon.
Spanning more than 40 years
and six campaigns, women
across the state fi nally gained
the right to vote in 1912 — three
years prior to Duniway’s death.
R. GREGORY NOKES
Nokes, a former journalist
and foreign correspondent who
has authored several books
about Oregon’s history, shares
about Applegate’s trailblaz-
ing eff orts. While conducting
research for books he had
been writing on Oregon history,
Nokes said Applegate’s name
kept coming up.
“The more I learned, the more
interesting he became,” he said.
Several years after Apple-
gate and his brother, Lindsay,
each lost sons on the Oregon
Trail — Nokes explained they
both drowned in a whirlpool on
the Columbia River route — he
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As an 8-year-old, Forrester recalls
being fascinated by Neuberger, who
visited his family’s home in Pendleton
— his father and Neuberger had
become acquainted while writing at
The Oregonian.
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From left, R. Gregory Nokes, Jane Kirkpatrick, and Steve Forrester.
helped pioneer an alternate
southern route. A safer alter-
native, it was later called the
Applegate Trail.
A representative of the state’s
pioneer government, Applegate
played a major role in dissuad-
ing delegates from approving
slavery during the 1857 Consti-
tutional Convention in Salem.
However, he was unsuccessful in
fi ghting a constitutional provi-
sion prohibiting Blacks from
settling in Oregon.
“In protest, Jesse refused to
sign the constitution,” Nokes
said.
“spawned a number of succes-
sors, including his wife, Maurine.”
“He’s an essential link in
Oregon’s political history of the
fi rst half of the 20th century,”
Forrester said.
In 1940, Neuberger was
elected to the Oregon House of
Representatives. Then in 1954,
he won a seat in the U.S. Senate,
where he co-sponsored original
legislation that later became The
Wilderness Act. Forrester said
Neuberger’s political activities
gave rise to the Democratic Party.
“He gave it a voice,” Forrester
said.
The chapter about Neuberger
in “Eminent Oregonians” is just
a beginning for Forrester. He
anticipates further research and
writing a full volume about the
man he fi rst met as a youngster.
As an 8-year-old, Forrester
recalls being fascinated by
Neuberger, who visited his fam-
ily’s home in Pendleton — his
father and Neuberger had be-
come acquainted while writing
at The Oregonian.
THREE OREGONIANS
Kerry Tymchuk, Oregon His-
torical Society executive director,
described “Eminent Oregonians”
as three talented Oregon authors
sharing remarkable stories about
three iconic Oregon fi gures.
“If you love Oregon history,”
she said, “it doesn’t get much
better than that.”
For more information or to
order the book, visit www.eo-
mediagroup.com/books/
eminent_oregonians.
STEVE FORRESTER
Forrester, president and
CEO of EO Media Group, who
once served as a U.S. Senate
page, writes about a political
fi gure who died at age 47. How-
ever, Forrester said Neuberger
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