Treasures in the Trunk: Quilts of the Oregon TrailBetween 1840 and 1870, a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continent to Oregon and California in what was considered one of the great migrations of modern times?Thousands of women arrived in the Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail. This migration or "leave-taking" would consume the longest time and widest distance for these nineteenth-century women to establish new homes for themselves and their loved ones." |
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... land and coming from free land . QUILTS Of the project's twenty : Seven were quilted when came . Nine were quilted after . Two pieced while on trail . Two not quilted . One tied . Span of time represented by quilts circa 1825- 1898 ...
... land and coming from free land . QUILTS Of the project's twenty : Seven were quilted when came . Nine were quilted after . Two pieced while on trail . Two not quilted . One tied . Span of time represented by quilts circa 1825- 1898 ...
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... land in what is now the Tigard area of Washing- ton County . Harriet Patterson completed high school and attended college in Port- land before joining her brother in the newly opened land for white settlers in Indian territory on North ...
... land in what is now the Tigard area of Washing- ton County . Harriet Patterson completed high school and attended college in Port- land before joining her brother in the newly opened land for white settlers in Indian territory on North ...
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... land , without one solitary friend , as one might say , in the land of the living ; but this time I will only endeavor to hold up the bright side of the picture . I lived a widow one year and four months . My three boys started for the ...
... land , without one solitary friend , as one might say , in the land of the living ; but this time I will only endeavor to hold up the bright side of the picture . I lived a widow one year and four months . My three boys started for the ...
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