The name was originally a slogan from the 1840s, and in particular from the turmoil of the Oregon boundary dispute (or the Oregon question), which arose as a result of competing British & American claims to the Pacific Northwest of North American Why choose 5440 or Fight?Here I had just crossed the 5440th parallelthis would have been the Canadian border if James Knox Polk had had his way My mind was not as much on this oddity of history, though, as it was on the thought that in about 40 minutes, I'd be crossing
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