The Oregon Spectator began publication as a semi-monthly. Non-political, its masthead carried the motto "Westward the star of empire takes its way." It was the first United States newspaper published on the West Coast. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 429.
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