The Oregon Trail - Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon

Journey to the Pacific Ocean
Beginning, in the year 1841, and continuing, for more than 20 years, an estimated 300,000 emigrants followed this route. It started in Independence, Missouri and went to Oregon City, Oregon. The journey took at least five months to complete. The 2170 mile long trail passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and into Oregon.

Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger was born in Virginia in 1804 and was a storybook frontiersman. He was the founder of Fort Bridger on the Trail of Oregon or Oregon Trail in 1843.

Jedediah Smith
Early explorer of the Pacific Coast - Smiths love for exploring began..

Lewis & Clark Trail
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Oregon Trail
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The Oregon Trail Games
The Oregon Trail Games are the #1 learning titles in schools! Travel the trails and make history come alive! The Oregon Trail Games builds real-life decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Collecting Art - Trail of Oregon Throw Blankets - Afghans & Throws
These picturesque coverlets, afghans, throws and blankets are not rugs. Between the years 1840 and 1880, thousands of people traveled the 2,000 miles from Missouri to Oregon Country..

Trail of Oregon Books - Collecting
Lou Spencer, Dillard Sumner and their companions found themselves in a hazardous adventure.
Children are given the sense of being witnesses to history-in-the-making in this series that explores important events in United States history.

Books - Collecting
Join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.
History comes alive as outstanding, annotated, full-color photography..

Books - Collecting
Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered..
Diary entries of Hattie Campbell, a thirteen-year-old girl whose family is bound for the Oregon prairies..

Books - Collecting
The Oregon Trail, edited [by] Feltskog is the most authoritative text, based on scholarly collation of all editions published in Parkman's lifetime..

Books - Collecting
The Oregon Trail chronicles the travels of Francis Parkman up the Oregon Trail as he records his observations of the Pawnee and Oglala Sioux ...
A 2-part series that focuses on the Great Migration along the Oregon Trail. This volume explores topics such as Lewis and Clark and the Astorians..

• The Dominguez-Escalante Expeditions Journal:

Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776

• I Walked to Zion:
- Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail

• The Gathering of Zion:
- The Story of the Mormon Trail

• National Geographic's Guide to:
- Lewis and Clark Trail

• Hiking Historic Trails
- Utah's Favorite Hiking Trails

• Scenic Driving - Travel guides
- Scenic Driving in Utah

• Historical reading
- The Old Spanish Trail

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