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)

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

    How high they build hospitals!
    Lighted cliffs, against dawns
    Of days people will die on.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)