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The Oregon Spectator. The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper published from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the United States. The Spectator was the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains and was the main paper of the region used by politicians for public debate of ...
1846; 1847; 1848; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. E. 1843 establishments in Oregon Country (12 P) Pages in category "1843 in ...
Member of General Stephen W. Kearny's company, June 22, 1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by Samuel Brannan, a journalist and elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with Keseberg. Accounts of the ordeal first reached New York City in July 1847. Reporting on the event across the U.S. was ...
July 8 – Battle of Monterey: Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C., Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California. August 11 – Establishment of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. September 21–24 – Battle of Monterrey: General ...
Oregon Country, 1818–1846 Anglo-American Convention of 1818; Provisional Government of Oregon (extralegal), 1843–1849; Oregon Treaty of 1846; Historical political divisions of the United States in the present State of Idaho: Unorganized territory created by the Oregon Treaty, 1846–1848; Territory of Oregon, 1848–1859
Francois Blanchet had set up a Catholic church presence there in 1838, serving a bishop of the Diocese of Oregon City. Augustin Blanchet was ordained bishop on 27 September 1846 by Archbishop Ignace Bourget at Saint-Jacques Cathedral in Montreal. Blanchet left Montreal for Oregon Country on 4 March 1847 and arrived in Walla Walla on 5 September ...
Thomas Dove Keizur, Captain Charles Bennett, First Lieutenant A.A. Robinson. The Oregon Rangers were two 19th century settler militia in the Willamette Valley of the contested Oregon Country. The first was established in response to the Cockstock incident and quickly dissolved. The second was formed in 1846 but only lasted few months.
Monticello Convention. The Monticello Convention refers to a set of two separate meetings held in 1851 and 1852 to petition Congress to split the Oregon Territory into two separate territories; one north of the Columbia River and one south.