Definition of oregona

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

They spread over an area no larger than Oregon ; yet they include peoples as different from one another as Oregonians are from Patagonians .

(Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)

Twenty-five_thousand to each of the great-nieces in Oregon ( not much to blood_relatives out of millions ) ten_thousand to this friend and that , five_thousand to another ; to Brian_Thayer , the sum of ten_thousand dollars ; to the Pecks , ten_thousand each ; to Joan_Sheldon the conditional bequest of ten_thousand to be paid to her in the event that she was still in Mrs._Meeker 's employ at the time of the latter 's death .