contentious history of the Oregon & California Land Grant that produced federal forest lands now managed by the Bureau of Land Management ("O&C lands"), including an analysis of how these lands re-vested to the federal government following decades of corruption and scandal, and the resulting cong...
While fur traders made their own rudimentary routes in the Pacific Northwest throughout the 1700s, the formal Oregon Trail was mostly used between 1840 and 1870. It became nearly obsolete with the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. By taking the train, settlers from the ...
Oregon-California Railroad Land Grants 作者:United States Congress Senate Committ, S 页数:34 ISBN:9781175731944 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 我要写书评 Oregon-California Railroad Land Grants的书评 ···(全部 0 条)...
a region encompassing all the land from the California border to Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, was held jointly by Great Britain and the United States from 1818 until 1846, when the international boundary was fixed at the 49th parallel. In 1848 theOregon Territorywas ...
California, whereupon the name soon changed to the Oregon & California Railroad. After winning a federal subsidy, he was able to extend the railroad as far south as Roseburg, Oregon. After the stock market collapsed in the financial panic of 1873, Holladay lost his fortune and struggled to ...
Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company abandonment, portion Dayton Branch, Dayton to Turner, ETAS : environme... 村松,香織,福崎,稔,後藤,真哉 - 情報通信技術研究所所報 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students ...
and other terrain in the American Midwest made the journey dangerous for many settlers. The beginning of the Oregon Trail connected to the California Trail, Mormon Trail, and Bozeman Trail. About 400,000 travelers used the trail from 1836-1869 after the completion of the transcontinental railroad...
In 1849, he was elected as captain of the Washington City and California Mining and Wagon Company which set forth to California as a part of the 1849 gold rush. Along the way, he made detailed notes and drew sketches. As were many of the Forty-Niners, Bruff was less than sucessful ...
Oregon is bounded to the north by Washington state, from which it receives the waters of the Columbia River; to the east by Idaho, more than half the border with which is formed by the winding Snake River and Hells Canyon; to the south by Nevada and California, with which Oregon shares...
The 3-foot gauge was incorporated in 1890 by David Eccles to move logs out of the Sumpter Valley to the Oregon Lumber Company's sawmill in South Baker City (this point also established a connection with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, a Union Pacific subsidiary). ...