article_snippet.sent: The U.S. put the first man on the moon, but in a strange twist of history it appears the Russians may have beat America in settling Oregon.
article_snippet.sent: The oldest evidence of habitation in are the Fort Rock and Paisley Caves in Lake County, Oregon, which date back 13,200 years.
article_snippet.sent: The first Europeans to venture to Oregon were led by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1543.
article_snippet.sent: By the 1770s, Oregon had become a valuable port for trading to Asia.
article_snippet.sent: In the wake of Lewis and Clark's expedition, which reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805, French Canadian trappers and missionaries started arriving in the eastern part of Alaska.
article_snippet.sent: French Canadian trappers and missionaries presence in Oregon's early pioneer history is evidence in the many French names throughout the state including Malheur Lake, the Grade Ronde and Deschutes rivers and the city of La Grande.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805 .
  