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[water splashing] [wind bellowing] [bright music] NARRATOR: In the summer of 1792, a trading ship sailed into a great river in the Pacific Northwest. Captain Robert Gray, an American, called his discovery the Columbia. What would they have seen? A beautiful area undeveloped. Clean water, drink from anywhere. Food was everywhere. Medicinal plants were everywhere. There were so many salmon, they say on the rivers you could walk across their backs. It was like a haven, a Garden of Eden. NARRATOR: For thousands of years, native tribes had thrived here, but newcomers would change the landscape. Had the disease not struck the Native Americans, our history would have been very, very different than the way it ended up because there would have been entire nations, Indian nations intact, but they weren't. So the Oregon Trail, thanks to the Lewis and Clark Journals, opened up the floodgates, and they came. [banjo music] NARRATOR: They were mountain men, missionaries, and farmers, and they carved