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Steens Mountain

... 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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