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The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and trappers from about 1811 to 1840 and was initially only passable on foot or horseback. By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.
A map of Willamette Valley rail lines from 1919. Byron J. Pengra, the Surveyor General of Oregon from 1862 to 1865, secured a federal land grant in 1864 for the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road from Eugene to Owyhee, and proposed a railroad along this line, then joining the transcontinental railroad near Winnemucca, Nevada.
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.
The first railway in Oregon was proposed by Byron J. Pengra, Surveyor General of Oregon, along the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road in 1864, but Oregon's first railroad ended up being the Oregon Portage Railroad.
He shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, including the Whitman-Spalding Party (1836) [5] and the Bartleson-Bidwell Party (1841). He was the official guide to John C. Frémont on his 1843 to 1845 expedition. [ 12 ]
The trail was first recorded in 1812, when Robert Stuart and six others came through there heading east from Fort Astoria, Oregon. Traders, trappers, and missionaries used this route before 1841 when the Bartleson–Bidwell Party became the first wagon train across the trail. The number of emigrants grew from 100 plus in 1842 to over 900 in 1843.
One of Oregon's most unique mountain bike rides follows a route pioneered by Native Americans and turned into a wagon road in the late 1800s and 1900s ... When I first got to this district about ...
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.