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Pioneer Monuments in the American West

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Oregon

Pioneer memory holds special resonance in Oregon, the primary destination of the mid-nineteenth-century Oregon Trail. Pioneer monuments are plentiful in the Willamette Valley and along the Oregon Trail route.

David Manuel, The Promised Land, 1993, Portland, Oregon

Portland-area monuments

Willamette Valley monuments

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