Big Butte Creek is a 12-mile-long (19 km)tributary of theRogue River located in the U.S. state ofOregon. Itdrains approximately 245 square miles (630 km2) ofJackson County. The north fork of the creek begins on Rustler Peak and the south fork's headwaters are nearMount McLoughlin(pictured). They meet nearButte Falls, and Big Butte Creek flows generally northwest until it empties into the Rogue River about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest ofLost Creek Dam (William L. Jess Dam). Big Butte Creek's watershed was originally settled more than 8,000 years ago by theKlamath,Upper Umpqua, andTakelma tribes ofNative Americans. In theRogue River Wars of the 1850s, most of the Native Americans were either killed or forced intoIndian reservations. The first non-indigenous settlers arrived in the 1860s, and the area was quickly developed. The creek was named after Snowy Butte, an early name for Mount McLoughlin. The small city ofButte Falls wasincorporated in 1911. (Full article...)
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Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph that shows an Americanstrikebreaker getting beaten byUnited Auto Workers (UAW) strikers who werepicketing at theFord Motor Company'sRouge Plant inDearborn, Michigan.Milton Brooks, a photographer forThe Detroit News, captured the image on April 3, 1941, and it won the inauguralPulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942. The photograph has been called a portrayal of the struggle in America between capital and labor. During the incident, a peaceful picketing of the Ford Motor Company was interrupted when a single man clashed with the UAW strikers. The man ignored the advice of theMichigan State Police and crossed the picket lines. Brooks, who was waiting with otherphotojournalists outside the Ford factory gates, took only one photograph and said: "I took the picture quickly, hid the camera ... ducked into the crowd ... a lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture." Photograph credit:Milton Brooks; restored byYann Forget Recently featured: |
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