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The west coast of North America wasn't truly settled by Europeans until about a century or more after the European settling of the east coast.
Now that coast was however known and somewhat explored. Could another group like the Japanese or Chinese with knowledge of the existence of North America launch a colonization expedition some time in the 16th or 17th century and beat the Europeans there?