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The Sager family at the beginning of their journey west. The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as the Sager children) were the children of Henry and Naomi Sager. In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi died and left their seven ...
Westward expansion trails. In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1840 and 1847 as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of the mid-19th ...
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, mainly eating ...
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon with a canvas top used for transportation or hauling. [3] The covered wagon has become a cultural icon of the ...
I've read a collection of diaries, letters and memoirs by women, who in the 1840s went by covered wagons west to their new homes, mostly in Oregon. The trials and tribulations pioneers experienced ...
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. It was used during the 19th century by Great Plains pioneers who were seeking fertile land in the ...
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851–52). American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, [1] Asian American, [2] and African American [3] settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the continent of ...
People of the American Old West (22 C, 206 P) ... Pages in category "American pioneers" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total.