My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon…

I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of…

— Sloane Crosley

“I still think of Oregon Trail as a great leveler. If, for example, you were a twelve-year-old girl from Westchester with frizzy hair, a…

— Sloane Crosley

“The 1836 Whitman-Spalding covered wagon train was the first to go beyond the Rockies and complete the Oregon Trail.”

— Rinker Buck

When people are watching standup and I come out and I'm a prairie woman doing a monologue about the Oregon Trail, it doesn't go…

— Cole Escola

Oregon Trail sets unrealistic expectations about how easy it is to kill a family by fording a river.

— Anonymous

As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that a better…

— Ted Wheeler

I think coming from the Northwest is something that's born in your blood. On my mom's side, I'm, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian. My family…

— Mat Kearney

“A cavalry of sweaty but righteous blond gods chased pesky, unkempt people across an annoyingly leaky Mexican border. A grimy cowboy with a headdress…

— Ellen Meloy

When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West…

— John M. Grunsfeld

“This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my…

— William Stafford

I grew up in Oregon. I have a younger brother and an older sister. We were very poor. VERY POOR. We lived in a…

— Cole Escola

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

— Gordon Smith

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a…

— David Anders

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two…

— Gus Van Sant

In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

— Brendan I. Koerner