Add to ORKG"For nearly one hundred years there has been considerable speculation and much thoughtful effort… to trace and establish the origin and meaning of this euphonious and poetical name. All attempts to give it a Spanish origin… or to attribute it to some French origin... have ignored its rather obvious Indian origin.
"At the meeting on April 6, 1927, the United States Geographic Board rendered a decision approving t...
"Here by the wayside, where travelers still use the pass at the river side, though no longer coming ...
For too long, Oregon history has been captive to the mid-nineteenth-century’s rambling wagon trains....
"The subject of these remarks is the name Oregon, the ultimate source and meaning of which seem dest...
"Oregon derives its present name from a typographical error in Jonathan Carver's Travels Through the...
"From the historical point of view, it is apparent that practically all the best known names of the ...
"[Washington] has practically as many Indian and American names, and more English, Spanish, and Fren...
"This book has been published as a series of articles in the Washington Historical Quarterly beginni...
"In eastern Washington and western Idaho, north of the snake and Clearwater Rivers, lies an agricult...
Multnomah is a word familiar to Oregonians as the name of a county and a waterfall, among other pla...
In some American aboriginal words, similarities in phonetics and meaning suggest borrowing, especial...
Full title: Indian place names : Indian names of some of the streams, islands, etc., on the Penobsco...
"We wish now recall some of the time-honored, once familiar names. The first mention we find of…
A paper read before the Bangor Historical Society, probably January 1932. A discussion of the meanin...
Three letters to Dr. Charles E. Banks discussing variations of place names for river outlets to the ...
"At the meeting on April 6, 1927, the United States Geographic Board rendered a decision approving t...
"Here by the wayside, where travelers still use the pass at the river side, though no longer coming ...
For too long, Oregon history has been captive to the mid-nineteenth-century’s rambling wagon trains....
"The subject of these remarks is the name Oregon, the ultimate source and meaning of which seem dest...
"Oregon derives its present name from a typographical error in Jonathan Carver's Travels Through the...
"From the historical point of view, it is apparent that practically all the best known names of the ...
"[Washington] has practically as many Indian and American names, and more English, Spanish, and Fren...
"This book has been published as a series of articles in the Washington Historical Quarterly beginni...
"In eastern Washington and western Idaho, north of the snake and Clearwater Rivers, lies an agricult...
Multnomah is a word familiar to Oregonians as the name of a county and a waterfall, among other pla...
In some American aboriginal words, similarities in phonetics and meaning suggest borrowing, especial...
Full title: Indian place names : Indian names of some of the streams, islands, etc., on the Penobsco...
"We wish now recall some of the time-honored, once familiar names. The first mention we find of…
A paper read before the Bangor Historical Society, probably January 1932. A discussion of the meanin...
Three letters to Dr. Charles E. Banks discussing variations of place names for river outlets to the ...
"At the meeting on April 6, 1927, the United States Geographic Board rendered a decision approving t...
"Here by the wayside, where travelers still use the pass at the river side, though no longer coming ...
For too long, Oregon history has been captive to the mid-nineteenth-century’s rambling wagon trains....