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1. www.britannica.com › topic › Oregon-TrailOregon Trail | Definition, History, Map, & Facts | Britannica

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   3 days ago · The Oregon Trail was an overland trail between Independence, Missouri, and Oregon City, near present-day Portland, Oregon, in the Willamette River valley. It was one of the two main emigrant routes to the American West in the 19th century, the other being the southerly Santa Fe Trail.

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2. starherald.com › news › communitySherry Preston: Oregon Trail game moves to life-sized version

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   1 day ago · Omaha woman arrested, accused of 5-year-old boy's death after he was found in hot SUV. 103rd Oregon Trail Days rules the weekend in Gering. Participants started with a passport, a small compass ...

3. www.britannica.com › topic › Oregon-TrailOregon Trail - Pioneers, Wagons, Westward | Britannica

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   3 days ago · Oregon Trail - Pioneers, Wagons, Westward: Many motion pictures show wagon trains in the West full of people riding in big wagons pulled by horses.

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5. data.usatoday.com › fires › oregon-trailOregon Trail - Wildfire and Smoke Map | usatoday.com

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   4 days ago · Name: Oregon Trail (20 SW of Casper Wyoming) Incident Type Category: Wildfire: Percent Contained: 20%: Incident Size (Acres) 1,400: Estimated Cost to Date: $100,000

6. www.grunge.com › 1603651 › oregon-trail-rules-peopleRules People Had To Follow On The Oregon Trail - Grunge

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   Jun 22, 2024 · The Oregon Trail was a wagon route that ran from Missouri to Oregon. It was a treacherous journey, so unsurprisingly, travelers had to follow some rules.

7. www.hmdb.org › mThe Oregon Trail - The Historical Marker Database

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   Jul 10, 2024 · The Oregon Trail started from Independence, followed the Kansas River west, and then the Little Blue north into Nebraska. It crossed this divide to reach the Platte near Fort Kearny. In the 1830’s trappers and missionaries recognized the Platte Valley as a natural roadway. The first wagon train followed the 2,000 mile trail to Oregon in 1841.

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   Is the Oregon Trail a video game?

   • The trail was also the subject of a successful educational video computer game in the 1980s and ’90s, which was reintroduced in various digital forms in the early 21st century. Oregon Trail - Pioneers, Wagons, Westward: Many motion pictures show wagon trains in the West full of people riding in big wagons pulled by horses.

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   Where is the Oregon Trail located?

   • Oregon Trail, in U.S. history, an overland trail between Independence, Missouri, and Oregon City, near present-day Portland, Oregon, in the Willamette River valley. It was one of the two main emigrant routes to the American West in the 19th century, the other being the southerly Santa Fe Trail from Independence to Santa Fe (now in New Mexico ).

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   How long was the Oregon Trail?

   • The Oregon Trail, which stretched for about 2,000 miles (3,200 km), flourished as the main means for hundreds of thousands of emigrants to reach the Northwest from the early 1840s through the 1860s. It crossed varied and often difficult terrain that included large territories occupied by Native Americans.

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   How many people were on the Oregon Trail?

   • These letters were circulated among friends and widely published in eastern newspapers. A flood of American, men, women, and children soon headed west following the Oregon Trail, the superhighway of the early American West. By the mid-1850s some 400,000 had made the journey, with perhaps 30,000 perishing en route, primarily from disease.

   Letters and Journals from the Oregon Trail - Teaching American History

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   Jul 1, 2024 · A flood of American, men, women, and children soon headed west following the Oregon Trail, the superhighway of the early American West. By the mid-1850s some 400,000 had made the journey, with perhaps 30,000 perishing en route, primarily from disease.