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)

    To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)