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Oregon pioneer history (1806–1890) is the period in the history of Oregon Country and Oregon Territory, in the present day state of Oregon and Northwestern United States. It was the era when pioneers and mountain men , primarily of European descent, traveled west across North America to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains ...
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later in life he worked to memorialize the Trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth.
On October 18, 1873, the Oregon Pioneer Society was reorganized as the Oregon Pioneer Association (OPA). [1] The group continued to hold annual meetings each June, usually around the June 15 "Pioneer Day" holiday, [ 2 ] with stenographic reports of these meetings published in pamphlet form for the historical record.
Joseph Goff Gale (April 29, 1807 – December 13, 1881) was an American pioneer, trapper, entrepreneur, and politician who contributed to the early settlement of the Oregon Country.
Portland, Oregon: June 18, 1939. Shortess, Robert. "First Emigrants to Oregon". Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association, pages 92–107. Portland, Oregon: George H. Himes & Company, 1897. Shortess's narrative is the best first person account of the Peoria Party – RBF. Smith, Sidney. Diary of Sidney Smith, 1839.
Samuel Asahel Clarke from the frontispiece of his 1905 book Pioneer Days in Oregon.. Samuel Asahel Clarke (March 7, 1827 – August 20, 1909) (more commonly known as S. A. Clarke) was a poet and an early journalist of the U.S. state of Oregon. [1]
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Oregon on February 28, 2020. On that day, Governor Kate Brown created a coronavirus response team; on March 8 she declared a state of emergency; and on March 23 she issued a statewide stay-at-home order with class C misdemeanor charges for violators.
Then the Oregon Trail crossed the Snake River Plain of present-day southern Idaho and the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon before reaching the Willamette Valley. It was the only practical way for settlers in wagons without tools, livestock, or supplies to cross the mountains and usually thought critical to the settlement of the American West.