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The Lazy Person’s Guide to Oregon

by | Mar 1, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

Celebrating Oregon’s 150th birthday party.
“A lazy person should never think about going to Oregon,” wrote Elizabeth Wood, in her diary entry for August 3, 1851. Elizabeth was traveling on the Oregon Trail, which settlers looking to forge new lives out West had traversed since 1841. Her words were prophetic and set the stage for things to come. In the last 150 years, Oregon has matured from a wild and unruly frontier


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