DCHP-3

Oregon †

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Hist.

the vast region lying between California and Alaska on the Pacific coast of North America, that part south of the 49th parallel being ceded to the United States by Great Britain in 1846.

Quotations

1846
Of late, the Eagle, soaring high over the "snow-capped" hills of Oregon, Said he, and winked his hawkish eye, "This here I'll lay my talons on."
1963
The Democrats took up . . . a demand for the whole of Oregon up to Russian Alaska.