Oregon Trail Days

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

    The Oregon [matter] and the annexation of Texas are now all- important to the security and future peace and prosperity of our union, and I hope there are a sufficient number of pure American democrats to carry into effect the annexation of Texas and [extension of] our laws over Oregon. No temporizing policy or all is lost.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
    Making a new twilight
    William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 42:12.