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 * ... that Steens Mountain (pictured) in southeastern Oregon is named in honor of United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who crossed the mountain pursuing a band of Indians in 1860?
 * ...that while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer (later a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court) worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning?
 * ...that the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?
 * ... that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon, was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2011/March, archive of Main Page appearance.
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