Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Half-dollar
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
An act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon trail to the far west with great hardship, daring and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new states to the union but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame for the pioneers; to honor the 20,000 dead that lie buried in unknown graves along 2,000 miles of that great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the old trail from oblivion; and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial or otherwise, the tragic events associated with that emigration--erecting them either along the trail itself or elsewhere, in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the city of Washington.
