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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 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 the ...
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.
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 ...
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.
An 1869 oil on canvas painting of emigrants on their way to Oregon, ostensibly inspired by a fifty-wagon train of German emigrants who crossed Bierstadt's path during his 1863 expedition. Referred to as Emigrants Crossing the Plains—Sunset in: Tuckerman, Henry T. (1870).
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 ...
Dick Adams - 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Preservation Society. Attention bread enthusiasts and history buffs – there’s a sourdough starter from 1847 that you can get your hands on, but there ...
Emigrants marked their path on this juniper limb, found southeast of present-day Redmond, Oregon.The limb is now on display in the Deschutes County Museum. 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.