Robert E. Strahorn

ID: 5343 ~ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Col._Robert_E._Strahorn,_c.1900.png
 ~ Date: 1900
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Few men knew the west like Robert Strahorn, hired as a publicist by Union Pacific in 1877 Strahorn traveled across the region to create advertisements for the territories.

This file appears in: They Called Him The Sphinx

By Devrick Barnett
In the house that once sat on this corner of 1st and Hemlock lived Robert E Strahorn. Few men can be said to have as much influence developing the west as Strahorn. Throughout the 1870s and 80s, he traveled across the Pacific Northwest as the…