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	Willamette Valley
		mɨt]), with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its emergence from mountains near Eugene to its confluence with the Columbia River at Portland.
		It has formed the cultural and political heart of Oregon since the days of the Oregon Territory, and is home to nearly 60% of Oregon's population (or 40% if the Portland area is not included).
		The valley may be loosely defined as the broad plain of the Willamette, bounded on the west by the Coast Ranges and on the east by the Cascade Range.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/willamette_valley.html (703 words)

	Oregon Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oregon Country was a region of western North America that originally consisted of the land north of 42°N latitude, south of 54°40'N latitude, and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
		The phrase describes the period from the early penetration of European trappers and traders until the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
		In 1848, the U.S. portion of the Oregon Country was formally organized as the Oregon Territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oregon_Country (856 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oregon
		Oregon is bounded on the north by the State of Washington, on the east by Idaho, on the south by Nevada and California, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
		Oregon coals are lignitic, the largest bed uncovered being in the vicinity of Coos Bay.
		Oregon is bounded on three sides by navigable water: the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Columbia River on the north, and the Snake River on the east.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11288a.htm (5534 words)

	Fall Of The Fur Kingdom
		No doubt missionaries were less needed by the Salish than in the spreading village and farming community peopled by the old voyageurs and laborers of the Company and also by some sixty white settlers who had straggled into Oregon from various parts.
		Meanwhile the Oregon Question was convulsing Congress and a part of the nation on the eastern side of the mountains.
		The men of young Oregon, the men of the second generation, are seeking new goals in the wilderness, even as their fathers sought.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/oregon-8.shtml (5421 words)

	Missionaries Hurt Tribes People by Nella Parks, The End of the Spear, Huaorani, Corvalis, Oregon - Akha.org
		This incident and the subsequent missionary work by the Saint family is the topic of the new movie, “End of the Spear,” which was highlighted in the Gazette-Times’ religion section.
		While the missionaries claim the “warring ways” of the Waoranis led to their tiny population upon contact in the 1950s, anthropologists believe that the tribes of the Amazon are some of the oldest groups of people in the Americas.
		I suggest that “End of the Spear” shows one side of the missionaries’ story, but to hear the other side, watch the documentary “Trinkets and Beads.” It chronicles the fight the Waoranis are making against the oil companies and the missionaries to save their culture and lives.
	www.akha.org /news/2006/mar/missionarieshurttribe.html (666 words)

	History of the Oregon Wine Industry
		As Oregon’s early wine producers grew more confident in their belief that this was indeed a credible region for growing cool-weather, French varieties, they looked to refine their choice of plant material.
		Oregon’s important French link once came under strain when a French nurseryman figured out that the traditional French clones, which the French had paid to select, were being propagated in the US without the French receiving royalties.
		Oregon is finally beginning to reach its maturity as a wine region.The early pioneers are still at it, but the next generation has already joined them in the cellar.
	avalonwine.com /Oregon-Wine-history.php (1837 words)

	Oregon
		Oregon was admitted as the 33rd state in 1859.
		Oregon is a state of great natural beauty with places such as Crater Lake National Park and the Columbia River Gorge.
		The state flower is the Oregon grape, and the capital is Salem.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/or (128 words)

	Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Keturah Belknap's Chronicles are a personal recollection of her girlhood in Ohio 1818 to 1839, as a pioneer bride in Iowa 1839-1848, the Oregon Trail 1848, and Oregon 1848-1869.
		The personal letters which the Brewers received from the other missionaries in Oregon and from their family and friends back in "The States" reveal the Christian dedication, character, and high level of education which the early Methodist Missionaries brought to Oregon.
		William Roberts was the third Superintendent of the Oregon Mission and the organizer of the Oregon-California Conference.
	www.willamette.edu /~jhook/publicat.htm (568 words)

	Oregon Trail - National Historic Trails and Map
		As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries, and emigrants.
		Today the 2,170-mile Oregon Trail still evokes an instant image, a ready recollection of the settlement of this continent, of the differences between American Indians and white settlers, and of new horizons.
		Many people for many reasons had become interested in Oregon, but it was not until 1841 that the first group with serious intent to emigrate left the banks of the Missouri River and headed west.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_trail/ore.htm (2425 words)

	At the End of the Trail; Introduction to Clackamas County History
		Oregon Indian treaties that pushed Clackamas's Native Americans to reservations (beginning in the 1850's) were inflicted on a people who had lost most of their family and tribe within a single generation.
		Oregon Trail turned the trickle into a tide and firmly characterized the population as American.
		Oregon became a U.S. Territory with its capital in Clackamas's Oregon City in 1848 and a State in 1859.
	www.usgennet.org /alhnorus/ahorclak/historyintro.html (2617 words)

	Oregon : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		In Oregon City, several homes from this period are still standing, including that of John McLoughlin, who was chief factor at Fort Vancouver and aided many of the early pioneers who arrived in the area after traveling the Oregon Trail.
		Before these settlers ever arrived, the small population of retired trappers, missionaries, and HBC employees who were living at Fort Vancouver and in nearby Oregon City had formed a provisional government in anticipation of the land-claim problems that would arise with the influx of settlers to the region.
		It was the massacre of the missionaries at the Whitman mission in Walla Walla (now in Washington state) and the subsequent demand for territorial status and U.S. military protection that brought about the establishment of the first U.S. territory west of the Rockies.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/oregon/2529020044.html (2797 words)

	The Shaping Forces - Historical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The earliest churches in Oregon were almost always established by missionaries, and even today Oregon has continued to be viewed by denominations as a mission field.
		The Oregon mission closed the next year.25 Lee was instrumental in the founding of Williamette University, and a statue in his honor is in the National Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C..
		In the 1926 Federal Census of churches, Oregon's church membership was 22.7% of the population as compared with 42.4% nationally.
	www.carltown.net /porthis2.htm (4361 words)

	Northwest Missionaries
		Although two of the Indians died in St. Louis, a third died on the way home and the surviving Indian was killed shortly after reaching his tribe in a raid by the Blackfeet, their journey had far reaching results.
		In October 1834 the first mission in the Oregon country was established on the Willamette River north of the the present day city of Keizer.
		In 1837, in response to a request for additional help, another group of missionaries were sent to join Lee.
	www.oregonpioneers.com /missions.htm (1052 words)

	§4. Naval Expeditions. XIV. Travellers and Explorers, 1846–1900. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The chain binding Europe by the west to Cathay, of which the Santa Fè and the Oregon trails were preliminary links, was being forged to completion by this steady march of pioneers across the salubrious uplands of the Far West.
		Five volumes were published: The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 (1845), but the scientific data have not been issued, although many of the projected volumes are printed.
		They saw Antarctic land frequently, and he says that on one day they saw “distinctly from sixty to seventy miles of coast, and a mountain in the interior which we estimated to be 2500 feet high.” There are in this volume certain ethnological notes on the South Sea Islanders that are important.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/227/0704.html (452 words)

	Acquistion of Oregon (vol 2) -- by Marshall 1911
		It was not entirely, perhaps, the fault of the missionaries themselves that their evangelical labors were not crowned with success, as there seem to be inherent difficulties in the inculcation of the abstract doctrines of Christianity in the minds of the untutored children of nature.
		The missionary labors of Cortez and Pizarro at an earlier period were conducted by Castilian cavalry mounted upon Andalusian steeds, and the truths of the gospel were thrust home at the points of the saber and the lance.
		How such a number of missionaries found employment in such a field it is not easy to conjecture, especially as the great body of the Indians never came under the influence of their labors.
	homepage.mac.com /fotl/marshall/marshall2_5-343.html (13522 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Whitman Mission (Contents)
		In western Oregon the Methodist missions, established with the arrival of Jason Lee in 1834, were suffering difficulties of their own.
		Faced with a rapidly diminishing number of Indians, the Methodists began to concentrate in the early 1840's on establishing churches among the new white settlements that were rapidly filling the Willamette Valley.
		Lacking a missionary to send there, he hired Alanson Hinman and his wife, from the Willamette Valley, to take charge of secular affairs and sent his nephew, Perrin, to live with them.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/37/hh37m.htm (798 words)

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		The second party sailed from the east coast and arrived in Oregon in the Sumatra, sailing from Boston on January 20, 1837 and reaching Ft. Vancouver on September 7, 1837.
		Dripps, the Fur Company, and the missionary couples arrived from the east while Ermatinger, the HBC caravan, and a States-bound party from the Oregon missions arrived from the west for RENDEZVOUS at Wind River.
		Cyrus SHEPPARD, a missionary who came to Oregon in 1834 with Jason Lee, died in the winter of 1839-40 of complications after his leg was amputated.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/5531/oregontrailsecond.html (13253 words)

	The Missionaries - Whitman Mission National Historic Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The missionaries who settled there wrote of this land and encouraged people and businesses to move to the Oregon Country.
		We now know that the missionaries that came out west were very unsuccessful in teaching the Indians about Christianity.
		Regardless, these missionaries spread the news about the Oregon Country to the people in the eastern United States, and this eventually brought many new settlers to the Oregon Country via the Oregon Trail.
	www.nps.gov /whmi/educate/ortrtg/6or9.htm (443 words)

	Oregon
		The Oregon Trail brought missionaries and wagon trains into the region in the 1830s and 1840s.
		Oregon was admitted as the 33rd state in 1859 and soon became a major lumber-producing state.
		Oregon is home to many natural attractions, including Crater Lake National Park, Mount Hood and Bonneville Dam.
	www.homesparadise.com /homes/oregon (341 words)

	American West - The Oregon Trail
		In 1906, 76-year old Ezra Meeker, Oregon settler in 1852 and tireless champion of the trail, set out in a covered wagon to retrace the route from west to east.
		The Oregon National Historic Trail, designated by Congress in 1978, is administrated by the National Park Service in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, state and local governmental units, citizen organizations, and numerous private individuals whose property the trail crosses.
		Oregon Trail Prepared by students in Clackamas County.
	www.americanwest.com /trails/pages/oretrail.htm (1696 words)

	Oregon Trail History Library - Main Menu
		Written by Dr. Jim Tompkins, a prominent local historian and the descendant of Oregon Trail immigrants, The Road to Oregon is a good primer on the history of the Oregon Trail.
		As with the Oregon Trail chronology, this timeline addresses the peak years of emigration, from 1841 to 1866.
		The "exclusion laws" were passed to keep slaves and the free descendants of slaves from settling in the Oregon Country in the hope of avoiding the troubles of the East.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /histhome.html (745 words)

	Oregon Trail: The Great Migration: 1843 Pioneer Wagon Train to Oregon
		He discusses Indians, settlers, and the missionaries he met throughout the diary, along with a good description of the country, weather, and conditions along the trail and in early Oregon.
		The Oregon Trail Website with pictures and history of the Trail, based on the PBS documentary; a "complete compendium" and well worth a visit.
		The five Oregon Interpretive Centers, and complete Oregon segment information is found at The End of the Oregon Trail website.
	www.peak.org /~mransom/pioneers.html (1525 words)

	Early Protestant Missionaries in Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		L H JUDSON, b 6 Aug 1809 in CT, d 3 Mar 1880 in OR, Methodist missionary, elected magistrate and county surveyor, joined "the Great Reinforcement" that came to Oregon on the Lausanne with Jason LEE in 1840.
		In 1843, twelve-year-old Perrin joins his aunt and uncle, well-known missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa WHITMAN, in the Oregon Territory where they live with the Nez Perce and Cayuse Indians, in Attack in the Rye Grass (Trailblazers Series) by Dave Jackson, for ages 9-12.
		He discusses Indians, settlers, and the missionaries he met, with strong opinions throughout the diary, along with a good description of the country, weather, and conditions along the trail and in early Oregon.
	www.peak.org /~mransom/missionaries.html (417 words)

	Recreation.gov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This site commemorates the courage of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, the role the Whitmans played in establishing the Oregon Trail, and the challenges encountered when two different cultures meet.
		Missionaries Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding became the first white women to travel across the continent.
		Their mission became an important stop along the Oregon Trail, but passing immigrants added to the tension.
	www.recreation.gov /detail.cfm?ID=(2978) (208 words)

	Oregon Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jason Lee (missionary)Jason Lee, a methodist minister from New York, was the first of these Oregon missionaries.
		In 1843, settlers in the Willamette Valley established a provisional government, which was recognized by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1845.
		SALEM â” Oregon could become the latest state to require tobacco companies to sell only self-extinguishing cigarettes, a move proponents say will save lives and reduce the frequency of forest fires.
	www.infothis.com /find/Oregon_Country (1143 words)

	University of Oregon Libraries
		Correspondence of Oregon pioneers connected with O. Applegate, especially concerning the Modoc Indian War.
		Mainly papers of Asahel Bush relating to his work as territorial and state printer in Oregon, hisinterests in Democratic Party politics, and his editorial career as publisher of the newspaper, The Statesman Originals in: Oregon State Archives.
		The collection deals largely with Oregon affairs: politics, admission of Oregon as a state, Indian hostilities and treaties, war claims and pensions, river and stage coach transportation, land titles, the lumber trade, gold mining, and immigration to Oregon.
	www.libweb.uoregon.edu /govdocs/micro/hist.htm (4709 words)

	Mission Mill Museum: Fiber Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nancie Peacocke Fadeley, who served for 10 years as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, was until her recent retirement Assistant Vice Provost at the University of Oregon.
		In this extensive work with the diaries, journals and letters of the missionaries, John has become somewhat of an authority on the Mission Period and its transition to a ministry primarily for white settlers with the formation of the Oregon-California Mission Conference.
		She is emeritus coordinator of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for the State of Oregon.
	www.missionmill.org /reunionDetails.htm (1552 words)

	Missionaries of Beacon Baptist Church -- Medford, Oregon
		Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
		Brent Spears is our faithful missionary to the Philippines.
		Missionary to Oaxaca, Mexico, since June 1993 -- Click above to send Bro Craft an email.
	www.beaconbaptistchurch.net /missionaries.htm (154 words)

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