Oregon Trail Days

Famous quotes containing the words oregon, trail and/or days:

    “When Paul Bunyan’s loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space before discovering they had passed the last rafter.”
    —State of Oregon, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
    Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
    Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
    To crawl in her own blood, and go scot-free;
    The night can sweat with terror as before
    We pieced our thoughts into philosophy....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)