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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#19 - OREGON
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| OREGON. |
| THE first white men to
explore the coast of Oregon were
the Spaniards, Ferrello, in 1543,
and Aguilla in 1603. Captain Cook
made discoveries here in 1778,
and Vancouver in 1792. The Hudson
Bay Company moved into Oregon
with its trading-posts, and
filled the country with
adventurous fur-traders. In 1789
Spain erected forts on the coast
and seized British trading
vessels as trespassers, but in
the following year she was forced
to concede that English traders
and settlers should have equal
rights with the Spaniards in the
northwestern country. The
American claim to possession of
Oregon is from the discovery of
the Columbia River in 1792 by
Capt. Robert Gray, in the Boston
ship Columbia, and its
exploration from its source to
the sea by Lewis and Clark in
1805, and on the original
settlement of Astoria in 1811. To
these are added the Spanish title
which passed to the United States
by the treaty of 1819. Emigrants
from the States had reached
Oregon in 1841-42, and were
followed in 1843 by a caravan of
200 wagons and 875 people from
Missouri. The Hudson Bay
Company's Canadian trappers and
their Indian wives and half-breed
children formed a large element,
and it was not until 1860 that
they abandoned Fort Van Vancouver
on the Columbia River. The
overland immigration poured
thousands of Americans into
Oregon, but many of them were
drawn away by the California gold
discoveries. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Chinese
Camp; Christmas Gulch;
Establishment of Mission,
1836; Lewis and Clark exploring
the Columbia River, 1804. |
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