Few historical authors have captured the western migration and the history of the West as well as did James Michner in his epic novel Centennial. It portrays the hopes, dreams and aspirations of this brave force of migrants as well as failed hopes, trials and tribulations and dreams of the future.
The first post should be left unchanged because it represents the genuine aspirations of wealth versus the dream of betterment for a future for your family. Many who traversed the Oregon Trail spilled their blood as a right of passage (often by the accidental discharge of their own firearms) and rarely at the hands of Native Americans in defense of their homeland. Passage was readily granted but stopping squatting or leaving the accepted route of the Oregon Trail was fobidden by the Native American residents.
Who followed the Oregon Trail is a complex question but in truth they were the:
The Oregon Trail was used after the civil war by homesteaders moving west. It was a major trail to settle the Northwest Territory.
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In 1834, Methodists missionaries established the first permanent American settlement in the Willamette Valley. The first large overland migration into Oregon came in the year of 1843. That year, about a thousand people traveled the Oregon Trail and they settled in the Willamette Valley.
Hundreds of American settlers arrived each year from then on.
Anybody with a wagon and fur traders. Also merchants.
A branch off the Oregon trail that led to Califorina and become know has the Califorina trail.
one person was lola baldwin. i got that off a nother web site
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Marcus Whitman,Peter Burnett,Jesse Applegate,John Gant
The Oregon trail is a trail in which pioneers have traveled in search of freedom. It was very dangerous trail back then.
mormons I believe..
The Oregon trail was first blazed (founded) in the 1840's, almost 20 years before the Civil War began. Thousands had traveled on it and established Oregon as a state before the war began.
The trail you seek is the Oregon Trail.
Yes, the Oregon Trail went through Oregon.
Over 500,000 people traveled on the Oregon Trail.
by foot.
The pioneers traveled on Hacker's Trail, better known as The Oregon Trail.
The Oregon trail is a trail in which pioneers have traveled in search of freedom. It was very dangerous trail back then.
The Oregon trail is a trail in which pioneers have traveled in search of freedom. It was very dangerous trail back then.
they traveled by stage coach and wagons
the oregon trail was the trail and possible the applation mountins if its wrong i have no idea.
Oregon trail Chisolm trail
they traveled 750 miles from here
It traveled the black people to the side to escape slavery!
It traveled the black people to the side to escape slavery!
they were pioneers on the Oregon trail. They are responcible for the Whitman mission. But they were killed in 1847 they were killed.