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)

    And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children...
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.