OREGON'S FIRST SETTLERS

"Oregon's 'healthful' climate and fertile soil . . . appealed to desperate families from older states suffering the economic effects of the Panic of 1837. [By 1850] nearly 60 percent of the territory's pioneer families were from the states that lined the Ohio and Upper Mississippi rivers."

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