Three thousand miles east of Oregon, early settlers were setting up new homes in an unfamiliar land.
Every day, with the help of Native Americans, they worked to survive. A generation later, their work paid off as 13 British colonies began to develop on North American soil. Roads connected one village to the next. People learned how to survive through the winter. Trade between the colonies began, and a reliable economy developed. Life was still hard for colonists. But survival was no longer a surprise. Families planted their roots, and a new nation began to sprout. Oregon’s story, which begins near the place where Lewis and Clark’s journey west ended, is very different.
