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- ↑ "Marion County Comprehensive Plan" (PDF). Marion County, Oregon. December 1, 2005. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ↑ May, Dean L. (1994). Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-521-58575-9.
