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Philip Leget Edwards

First school teacher in Oregon, came from Richmond, Missouri at age 23. Born in KY. After Indian Manual Labor school closed returned to MO and studied law, got married, and then in 1850 moved to California, (Nevada County). Died May 1869[1]

1837 Willamette Cattle Company treasurer[1]

Contents

[edit] Early history and prehistory

Main article: Oregon Native Peoples History

[edit] Migration

[edit] Culture

[edit] Tribes

[edit] History to 1806

Main article: Oregon History to 1806

[edit] Modern tribes

Nez Perze, Kalypooia, Cayuse, coastal, Klamath

[edit] Early European contact

Drake, Spanish early, Cook

[edit] European and American exploration

Gray, Vancouver, Meares, Lewis & Clark

[edit] Pioneer history

[edit] Fur trade

HBC, Astoria, Ft William

[edit] Early settlement

Ewing Young, missions, retired french speaking trappers, plus Wilkes-Fremont-other expeditions

[edit] Economic activities

Willamette Cattle Co, Star of Oregon

[edit] Governmental evolution

provisional to territorial to state govt, plus competing claims with Spain/Russia/Britain

Provisional Government seal.
Provisional Government seal.

[edit] Economic maturity

railroads, cities, steamships, timber & fish

[edit] Native Americans

disease, wars, reservations

[edit] Modern history

Main article: Oregon Modern History

[edit] Immigration

Chinese, Japanese, European-Americans

[edit] Political reform

women's sufferage, initiative-recall

[edit] Economic expansion

cover WWI & II

[edit] Environmental movement

include land use, econmic changes from resource based to high-tech, bottle bill

[edit] Racism

Asians (internment), then African-Americans, then Hispanic

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Horner, John B. (1921). Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature. The J.K. Gill Co.: Portland. p. 69-70


History of Oregon
Top Ten Events

Treaty of 1818 · List of Governors of Oregon · Oregon Treaty · Lewis and Clark Expedition · Russo-American Treaty · Whitman massacre Oregon Trail · Entering of the Columbia River by Robert Gray · Great Depression · Champoeg Meetings

Top Ten People

John McLoughlin · Jason Lee · Meriwether Lewis · Marcus Whitman · Joseph Meek · Mark Hatfield · Tom McCall · Charles A. Sprague · Neil Goldschmidt · Asa Lovejoy

Oregon History

Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History