Oregon Geographic Names

• the thousands of years of Native American life;
• the period of Spanish, British, French and early American exploration, with arrivals by sea and overland, exemplified by the activities of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Lewis and Clark Expedition;
• the pioneer period, up to and particularly including the days of the Oregon Trail;
• the period of Indian Wars and mining claims inspired by the California gold rush and later facilitated by the Mining Act of 1872;
• the period of homesteading between 1875 and 1925, which affected nine million acres (36,000 km²); and
• the modern period of neologisms

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