They were coming by 1839. when the Peoria party. the first overland group. left Illinois. The first considerable wagon train over the Oregon Trail made the long and trying journey In 1843. That was the beginning of a migration which brought thousands to the Columbia and Willamette Valleys before 1860. In the 1840s a flood of books on Oregon appeared in the United States and Europe. They advertised Oregons attractions. offered muchneeded advice to emigrants. and details of the overland trail. or of the long sea voyages by way of Panama or Hawaii. Some of the later ones appealed to continental Europeans. especially Germans. Swedes. and Finns. who formed large communities In Oregon.
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