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The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile ... Many of the people on the trail in 1861–1863 were fleeing the war and its attendant drafts in both the South and the North.
This category is for people whose traveling of the Oregon Trail sometime between 1811 and 1869 is a significant part of their biography. Pages in category "People who traveled the Oregon Trail" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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.
At the end of April 1844, the Independent Colony, 300 people in 72 covered wagons, crossed the Missouri River and started out on the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey along the Oregon Trail. [2] The company was under the command of Captain William T. Shaw, a veteran of the war of 1812, who was traveling with his wife, Sally, and six children.
Years passed and railroads supplanted the old Oregon Trail; its very location was forgotten; disputes arose. Then an old man, almost eighty, clambered into a prairie schooner, made in part of some in which the pioneers had journeyed westward, and the Oregon Trail was retraced and marked with monuments, that a people and a nation may not forget ...
The Utter Party Massacre was an attack by Native Americans on September 9 or 13, [1] 1860, that killed or captured 29 of a group of 44 emigrants on a fork of the Oregon Trail in Washington Territory (modern day Idaho), United States. 10 survivors were found on October 24, 1860, emaciated and eating the disinterred remains of a party member. [2]
Tabitha Moffatt Brown (May 1, 1780 – May 4, 1858) was an American pioneer colonist who traveled the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. There she assisted in the founding of Tualatin Academy, which would grow to become Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. [1] Brown was honored in 1987 by the Oregon Legislature as the "Mother of Oregon ...
In 1842, White led the first wagon train over the Oregon Trail that had more than 100 people. [1] Trapper and later politician Osborne Russell served as guide to this migration. [3] The party set out on May 16, 1842, from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 112 people, 18 wagons, and a variety of livestock.