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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 West ...
1849. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849. The book is a first-person account of a 2-month ...
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. The western half crossed the current states of ...
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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. Once known as the " Hop King of the World", he was the ...
Francis Parkman. Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature.
The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is a 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m 2) interpretive center about the Oregon Trail located 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Baker City, Oregon on Oregon Route 86 atop Flagstaff Hill. It is operated by the Bureau of Land Management in partnership with Trail Tenders and the Oregon Trail Preservation ...
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Rinker Buck, author of Flight of Passage (Hyperion Books, 1997). The Oregon Trail is an account of Buck's 2011 journey along the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. It was published by Simon & Schuster in hardcover, audio book and eBook formats.