USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For this reason, fur trappers were the first settlers to head into Oregon Country. Not all of Oregon Country attracted Americans. Between the Cascade Mountains and the Rockies is a dry plateau. This region attracted neither fur trappers nor farmers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first Americans to live in the Oregon Country were fur traders. These men trapped beaver for their skins. Fur companies bought the skins to sell in the United States and Europe. The fur trappers were called mountain men.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Stuart of the Astorians (a group of fur traders who established Fort Astoria on the Columbia River in western Oregon) became the first white man to use what later became known as the Oregon Trail.

Detailed explanation-4: -Archaeological finds in the Fort Rock area in central Oregon, The Dalles on the Columbia River, and on the Oregon Coast indicate that Homo sapiens were beginning to occupy several places in the region during the early Holocene epoch, from at least 12, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-5: -“Mountain Men” was the name given to trappers who were lured west by the profits of the fur trade. They moved into Oregon Country, the huge, barely chart-ed area beyond the Rockies, where the forests and mountains were home to beaver and other fur-bearing animals. These men opened the way for later set-tlers.