settlers went to Oregon country for land to farm and to trade fur.
Missionaries
Missionaries
Many Settlers moving to Oregon country and other western areas followed the 2,000 mile long Oregon Trail, which stretched from places such as Independence, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa, west into Oregon Country
groups of settlers who were following the manifest destiny.
mountain men and missionaries
Willamette River Valley.
Willamette River Valley.
The first people to live in oregon were an unknown tribe of indeans but we may found out what tribe lived there one day.
The discovery of gold.
when where the first Oregon settlers founded
Settlers had to cross the Cascade Range to reach Oregon's Pacific coast.