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Applegate Trail - Bear Creek

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Here the valley is about 3 miles wide and is not the main Rogue River Valley, but a branch of it called Bear Creek. On August 30, 1853, Wellborn Beeson wrote of finding the first tomatoes and melon patch he had seen and helping himself to as many as he could eat, being very hungry.
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