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English: The first printing press in the Pacific Northwest.
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Source http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hh/37/hh37k.htm
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The American Board missionaries in the Sandwich Islands offered an older press to the Oregon missionaries. Between 1839 and 1845 a total of nine books were printed by Henry and Eliza Spalding and Cornelius Rogers. Eight were printed in the Nez Perze language, the ninth in Spokan.

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