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The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
6 Δεκ 2017 · Great Emigration of 1843. When Whitman headed west yet again, he met up with a huge wagon train destined for Oregon. The group included 120 wagons, about 1,000 people and thousands of livestock....
It leaves the main trail about 10 miles (16 km) west of South Pass and heads almost due west crossing Big Sandy Creek and then about 45 miles (72 km) of waterless, very dusty desert before reaching the Green River near the present town of La Barge. Ferries here transferred them across the Green River.
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.
2 Σεπ 2022 · The Oregon Trail was the most active between the years of 1841 and 1848, with the so-called “Great Migration” of over 800 emigrants at once taking place during 1843. Many others followed, and over the course of these boom years, hundreds of thousands of people crossed the Rockies.
In Oregon, the trail passed through the Powder River and Grande Ronde Valleys, over the Blue Mountains, and down the Columbia River to The Dalles, where many rafted their wagons and belongings to the lower Columbia River Valley.
By the early 1840s, American settlers, arriving overland in increasing numbers along what became known as the Oregon Trail, were beginning to challenge the dominance of Britain's Hudson's Bay Company in the jointly-occupied Oregon Country.
