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"Having concluded, from the best information I was able to obtain, that the Oregon Territory offers great inducements to emigrants, I determined to visit it with a view to satisfying myself in regard to it, and of ascertaining by personal observation whether its advantages were sufficient to warrant me in the effort to make it my future home. I started, accordingly, on the morning of the 16th of April, 1845..." Joel Palmer's Journal
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