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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Historic migration route spanning Independence, MO–Oregon City, OR For other uses, see Oregon Trail (disambiguation). The Oregon Trail The route of the Oregon Trail shown on a map of the western United States from Independence, Missouri (on the eastern end) to Oregon City, Oregon (on ...
Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later in life he worked to memorialize the Trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth.
Oregon Trail, painting by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1863. 1830s: Pioneers from the United States begin coming to Oregon via the Oregon Trail. Transportation improvements brought declines in wagon traffic on the trail in the 1850s and 1860s, but the trail continued to be in use as late as the 1890s. 1843
Oregon pioneer history (1806–1890) is the period in the history of Oregon Country and Oregon Territory, in the present day state of Oregon and Northwestern United States. It was the era when pioneers and mountain men , primarily of European descent, traveled west across North America to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains ...
Keizur and his family left Independence, Missouri, for Oregon on 20 May 1843. On the journey to Oregon, Keisur was joined by his wife, five sons, five daughters, two sons-in-law, eight grandchildren, and a brother of one of his sons-in-law. [4] [2] [3] [7] There were over one hundred wagons and approximately 900 pioneers traveling west to ...
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. ... but what about the Oregon Trail? Yes, the real-life route that more than 400,000 pioneers traveled from 1840 to 1880 and later inspired the classic ...
The fall before the Peoria Party began the long journey to Oregon, Rev. Jason Lee had visited Peoria on a national speaking tour about the Oregon country and moving westward. He recruited sixteen men at the start, but would pick up three more volunteers on the trail - bringing their largest number to nineteen.