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Ka-Ton-Ka was Oregon’s own patent remedy...sort of

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.

In the mid-1870s, a fast-talking East Coast hustler teamed up with a famous half-Native Indian scout to cash in on his fame with a line of dodgy faux-Indian patent remedies — and the Oregon Indian Medicine Co. was born.(Warm Springs Indian Reservation; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see http://www.offbeatoregon.com/1812c.ka-ton-ka-donald-mckay-warm-springs-indian-medicine.html)