Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon

8/13/2026

Underground History

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OPB's Jenn Chavez joins with Chelsea Rose, host of JPR's Underground History and director of the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology, to dig into the little-known stories of eastern Oregon's Chinese cowboys.

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Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon

Underground History

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How archaeologists restored Zane Gray's century-old Rogue River cabin

New archaeological research updates role of women in Oregon’s early timber industry

Oregon find may include world’s oldest sewn material, researchers say

The cost of the 'cozy pioneer': unmasking genocide in the Pacific Northwest