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Also branching off to the south was the Mormon Trail from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. During the twenty-five years 1841–1866, 250,000 to 650,000 people "pulled up stakes," and headed west along these trails. About one-third immigrated to Oregon, one-third to California and one-third to Utah, Colorado, and Montana.
Map of major cattle trails, with the Great Western Trail in the center. The Great Western Cattle Trail is the name used today for a cattle trail established during the late 19th century for moving beef stock and horses to markets in eastern and northern states.
Name DOB–DOD Years Active Native Country Comments Albert, John: 1806–1899 1834–1847 United States Ashley, William Henry: 1778–1838 1822–1828 United States Baker, Jim: 1818–1898 1839–1873 United States Barclay, Alex: 1810–1855 1838–1855 Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West.
The fur industry was failing because of over-trapping. Fortuitously, America's ongoing western migration by wagon trains with the goal of claiming cheap lands in the west was building rapidly from a trickle of settlers from 1841's opening of the Oregon Trail to a flood of emigrants headed west by 1847–49 and thereafter well into the later 1880s.
Under the leadership of Putnam, two parties of pioneers comprising the first 48 men departed New England, cutting trails westward through the mountains during an uncommonly severe winter. One party departed from the towns of Ipswich, Massachusetts and Danvers, Massachusetts on December 3, 1787; the other party departed from Hartford ...
Pages in category "Trails and roads in the American Old West" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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There are many historic trails and roads in the United States which were important to the settlement and development of the United States including those used by American Indians. The lists below include only those routes in use prior to the creation of the American Highway System in 1926.