B Is for Beaver by Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Michael Roydon

Author:Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Michael Roydon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2003-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The Oregon Trail was the largest voluntary human migration in history, bringing over 300,000 pioneers to the western frontier during the 1800s. It was called “Oregon Fever.” Starting in Missouri, the journey was over 2,000 miles long. Some pioneers had wagons but most walked the entire way. Two women important to Oregon’s history came over this busy trail.

Abigail Scott Duniway traveled to Oregon when she was seventeen. Her mother and youngest brother died along the way. She became a schoolteacher, married, and had several children. She started a newspaper called the New Northwest, becoming an active spokes-person for women’s right to vote. In 1912, at age 78, she became the first woman to vote in Oregon.

Tabitha Moffatt Brown, a widow, came to Oregon when she was 66 years old. She started a home and school for orphans that eventually became Pacific University, now located in Forest Grove. She was called the “Mother of Oregon” for her charitable and compassionate work.

O is for the Oregon Trail bringing wagonloads of pioneers traveling from Missouri with plans for new frontiers.

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