The April 30, 1846 front page of The Oregon Spectator
Type
Biweekly newspaper
Format
Tabloid
Owner(s)
Oregon Printing Association
Editor
William G. T'Vault and others
Founded
1846
Ceased publication
1855
Headquarters
Oregon City, Oregon Territory, USA
The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper published from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the United States. The Spectator was the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains and was the main paper of the region used by politicians for public debate of the leading topics of the day. The paper's motto was Westward the Star of Empire takes its way.[1]
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of Oregon History. J.K. Gill Company. Leslie, David. OregonSpectator. (Oregon City, OR) 20 August 1846, p. 3. Online at the University of Oregon Digital...
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around the mission. Over the next few years the Provisional Government of Oregon and later the United States Army battled the Native Americans east of the...
establishment of Fort Vancouver. Using the HBC position that any settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute would confirm the border placement along the Columbia;...
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to 2005. In the early 1990s, the Spectator distinguished itself with reporting on the sexual assault scandals of Oregon Senator Robert Packwood, who resigned...
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a cent" in the Oregon Territory in October 1853 and was rebuffed in his attempts to become a printer for the OregonSpectator in Oregon City, the first...
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