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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...
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    The history of Oregon, a U.S. state, may be considered in five eras: geologic history, inhabitation by native peoples, early exploration by Europeans...
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  • of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Originally claimed by several countries (see Oregon Country), Spanish "El Orejón" was...
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    United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state...
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    The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly...
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    Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan...
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    Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first...
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    Oregon (/ˈɒrɪɡən, -ɡɒn/ ORR-ih-ghən, -⁠gon) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon is a part of the Western United States...
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  • a timeline of the history of Oregon in the United States of America. 13,200 BCE - Earliest evidence of human habitation in Oregon, discovered in 1938...
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    The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was used during the...
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    The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North...
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    a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 1,690 at the 2010 census. It is a popular coastal Oregon tourist destination, famous...
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  • Elijah White (category 1806 births)
    Dr. Elijah White (1806–1879) was a missionary and agent for the United States government in Oregon Country during the mid-19th century. A trained physician...
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    Vanport, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville, was a city of wartime public housing in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between the...
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    Broughton's voyage to the Columbia River Gorge, 1792 Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804–1806 Astor Expedition, 1810–1812 Oregon pioneer history, 1810–1859 Fort...
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    and geologic history of pre-territorial Oregon, Oregon Territory and the State of Oregon. Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of Oregon 1834-1848 (The...
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  • Chief Kilchis (category Native American history of Oregon)
    IPA) (1806–1866) was one of the last free chiefs of the Tillmook Native Americans. He lived during the 19th century near Tillamook Bay, Oregon. Chief...
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    USS Oregon (BB-3) was the third and final member of the Indiana class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The...
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    Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (category History museums in Nebraska)
    to 1806. It is part of the National Trails System of the United States. It extends for some 4,900 miles (7,900 km) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the...
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  • Samuel Parker (1806–1886) was an American pioneer of the Oregon Country, in what was to become the state of Oregon. Parker would later participate in...
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    Chinookan peoples (category Native American tribes in Oregon)
    Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent portions of the coasts, from Tillamook Head of present-day Oregon in the south...
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    The Oregon and California Railroad was formed from the Oregon Central Railroad when it was the first to operate a 20-mile (32 km) stretch south of Portland...
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    The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North...
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    Seaside is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic...
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  • western Oregon and western Washington in the United States. Various languages in the family are divided by dialects that are in most cases identical to the...
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    died at sea in 1806, near Charleston, South Carolina, possibly of yellow fever. In his honor, many geographic features along the Oregon and Washington...
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  • William P. Bryant (category 1806 births)
    3, 1806 – October 10, 1860) was an American jurist from Kentucky. He served as the first chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in the Oregon Territory...
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    Treaty of 1818 (category Pre-statehood history of Oregon)
    allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay...
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    Oregon Country was a large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United...
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    Shanghai tunnels (category History of Portland, Oregon)
    group of passages in Portland, Oregon, United States, mainly underneath the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood and connecting to the main business section. The...
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