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This day in 1872 marked the first public performance of Oregon's most famous musical family in Cove, Union County. The DeMoss Family Lyric Bards, as they were called, soon became the west's favorite entertainment group and were enthusiastically welcomed at many remote cowtowns and mining camps as they toured throughout the western states. The family, consisting of Reverend and Mrs. James DeMoss and their five children, wrote most of their own songs and played forty-one different musical instruments. While not on concert tour in America or Europe, the family spent their summers on the DeMoss Springs Ranch in eastern Oregon's Sherman County.
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