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24 lut 2015 · From over 3,500 original documents, Paper Trail organizes information into an easy-to-search database, featuring names, dates, routes, travel parties, locations and interesting features. The information from each document is searchable by emigrant name or by author.
12 sie 2024 · The Oregon Trail went from western Missouri across the Great Plains into the Rocky Mountains to Oregon City, Oregon. It was most heavily used in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s. It was the longest historic overland migration trail in North America.
Historians believe that over 400,000 people traveled the Oregon Trail between 1836 and 1869. Sadly, the names of most are probably lost to history forever. This list is an attempt to document as many as we can, based on the membership rolls of the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers.
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
6 gru 2017 · The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate...
29 mar 2018 · The first person to follow the entire route of the Oregon Trail was Robert Stuart of Astoria in 1812-13. He did so in reverse, traveling west to east, and in the process discovered the South Pass, so named because it was south of the pass Lewis and Clark followed over the Continental Divide.
The 2,200-mile Oregon Trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon during the mid-1800s. Learn more here.
