Oregon

Settled via the Oregon Trail by Yankee and Midwestern migrants, Oregon is a West Coast state pairing good-government idealism with frontier independence — though it carried a fraught early record on race. Timber, fishing and agriculture built it; Portland anchors a culture known for environmentalism and civic experiment. The Cascades divide its wet, populous west from its arid east.

• Existed: 1811 CE – present
• Type: Entity
• Government: U.S. State
• Capital: Salem