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National Geographic : 1979 Dec
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the labor. His wife, Caroline, told me, "We're all pretty strong individuals, but we know that working together we'll achieve a special kind of freedom." It was similar utopian aspirations that set tled Oregon when hundreds of families fled the panic of 1837 and came west over the Or egon Trail. By midcentury there were nearly five thousand pioneering Americans south of the Columbia. The entire Oregon territory had gone unexplored for more than 200 years after Oregon'sLovely, Lonely Coast Secure from the surf, juvenile Steller's sea lions perchon CenterRock in Sea Lion Caves northof Florence. Dozens of others snooze elsewhere in the privately owned grotto.In the summer the animalsbreedon the rock ledges outside the cave, the only mainland rookery of Steller's sea lions in the contiguous48 states. Visitors view the sea lions from behind a chain link fence aboutfifty yards away. 817
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