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Two major wagon-based transportation networks, one typically starting in Missouri and the other in the Mexican province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, served the majority of settlers during the era of westward expansion. Three of the Missouri-based routes—the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails—were collectively known as the Emigrant Trails.
Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century. The road was named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who was hired to lead the first wagon train along it in 1845. The journey was a particularly hard one, and ...
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 ...
This new wagon route became known as Cooke's Road, or Sonora Road, as much of the central part of the route passed through what was then the northern frontier of the state of Sonora, Mexico. In 1848, a U.S. Army expedition of 1st Dragoons under Major Lawrence P. Graham marched from Chihuahua to California, through Janos , then westward to ...
1751 Fry-Jefferson map depicting the Virginia Colony and surrounding provinces. Conestoga wagons on the Great Road. The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry".
By 1862 the Bridger Pass route of the Cherokee Trail was a well wore road when the Overland Mail and Stage moved from South Pass route on to it. In 1869 the rail road reached Utah ending the Overland Mail. The Cherokee Trail continued as an emigrant route as late as 1883 when the last wagon train from Wise County, Texas to Oregon was documented.
Lassen was the leader of a Wagon train from Missouri to California. The Wagon train included 12 covered wagons full of emigrants heading west, some part of the California Gold Rush. The Lassen Emigrant Trail was used from 1848 to 1853 by large groups of prospectors. Indian wars started along the trail so emigrants started to use other trails.
Several Oregon Trail branches and route variations led to the Willamette Valley. The most popular was the Barlow Road, which was carved through the forest around Mount Hood from The Dalles in 1846 as a toll road at $5.00 per wagon and 10 cents per head of livestock. It was rough and steep with poor grass but still cheaper and safer than ...