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2. Oregon Trail - Wikipedia

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   The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile ... The images of sandy wastelands conjured up by terms like "desert" were ... Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and ...

3. Route of the Oregon Trail - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Chimney Rock National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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   The formation served as a landmark along the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, and the Mormon Trail during the mid-19th century. The trails ran along the north side of the rock, which remains a visible landmark for modern travelers along U.S. Route 26 and Nebraska Highway 92.

5. Your Guide to an Oregon Trail Road Trip - AOL

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6. The Ultimate Oregon Trail Road Trip Itinerary - AOL

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7. Oregon Trail Ruts - Wikipedia

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   Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site is a preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, about 0.5 miles south of Guernsey, Wyoming. The Oregon Trail here was winding up towards South Pass. Here, wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the trail into a sandstone ridge about two to six feet, during its ...

8. Whitman Mission National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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   The Mission became an important stop along the Oregon Trail from 1843 to 1847, and passing immigrants added to the tension. With the influx of white settlers the Cayuse became suspicious of the Whitmans again, fearing that the white man was coming to take the land. A measles outbreak in November 1847 killed half the local Cayuse. The measles ...

9. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

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   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.