Oregone: adjective. To be oregone is to have become devoid of all mineral resources. Derived from the despondent exclamations of latecomers to the 1860s-1870s Eastern Oregon Gold Rush, the word oregone found its way into the English dictionary following the report of the chronicler Symeon of Seattle in 1884, an excerpt of which has been sold to our website for two pennies and a piece of grit:
"And did those feet in ancient time walk on the oregone mountains green? Yes, they did."
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