Introduction:
The Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc., a New York corporation, for reasons best known to itself, sought in early 1926 to have Congress authorize no less than 6,000,000 commemorative half dollars. In the grandiloquent language of the bill, these were "to commemorate the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon Trail to the Far West with great hardship, daring, and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new State to the Union, but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame to the pioneers; to honor the 20,000 dead that lie buried in unknown graves along 20,000 miles of the great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the trail from oblivion and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial or otherwise, the tragic events associated with that immigration, erecting them either along the trail itself or elsewhere in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the City of Washington..." Possibly because the stated purpose was nationalistic rather than obscurely local, the House Coinage Committee reported the bill favorably, and it became the Act of May 17, 1926.

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