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On this day in 1837 Oregon's cattle industry was born. Articles of Agreement were entered into by "settlers upon the Wallamette River" who realized the importance of having good stock of their own. Undeterred by the Hudson's Bay Company's refusal to sell them cattle, the newly formed Willamette Cattle Company took passage on the brig Loriot to California where they purchased Spanish herds and drove them back to Oregon.
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