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Oregon (toponym)
The origin of the name of the U.S. state of Oregon is unknown, and a subject of some dispute.
== Historical usage of the name ==
Most scholarship ascribes the earliest known use of the name "Oregon" to a 1765 petition by Major Robert Rogers to the Kingdom of Great Britain, seeking money to finance an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. The petition read "the rout . . . is from the Great Lakes towards the Head of the Mississippi, and from thence to the River called by the Indians Ouragon. . . .”〔(Oregon Almanac )〕 Thus the early Oregon Country and now the present day state of Oregon took their names from the river now known as the Columbia River.〔(Article on Oregon State in the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1910. Retrieved 10 March 2012 )〕
In 1766, Rogers commissioned Jonathan Carver to lead such an expedition and in 1778, Carver used ''Oregon'' to label the Great River of the West in his book ''Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America''.〔 "Jonathan Carver's source for the name Oregon," in: Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXIII (1922), pp. 58-69〕 The poet William Cullen Bryant took the name from Carver's book and used it in his poem ''Thanatopsis,'' published in 1817, to refer to the recent discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which helped establish the name in modern use.〔Rees, p. 326〕
Other theories suggest that Rogers appropriated the Abenaki name for the Ohio River, ''Waregan'', or found the name ''Ourican'' on a highly-speculative 1715 French map.〔(''Did this 1715 map influence the first appearance of the name Oregon? )'' Geographicus.com.〕
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