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Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008

by | Jan 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

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7. PENDLETON, OR It might (or might not) interest you to know that Pendleton was once sold for a span of horses. Seriously. Or at least that goes for some of the land Pendleton now stands on. Back in the early 1860s, Moses Goodwin convinced a squatter to give up his turf in exchange for a couple of equines. In 1868, Goodwin gave two-and-a-half acres of that land to the town site. And voila! Pendleton was up and running (so to speak). Nowadays, Pendleton is also associated with horses (a


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