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unusual facts about Oregon Trail, Wells Springs Segment



1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team

Although by this time there were railroads connecting much of the American Old West, it was still early enough in the nation's history that the Oregon Trail was still in use.

Charles E. Kearney

He moved to Kansas City in 1852 where he outfitted travelers on the Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail from Westport, Missouri.

Chief Blue Horse

In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wagluhe camp to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming when the U.S. Army first garrisoned the old trading post to protect and supply wagon trains of white migrants along the Oregon Trail.

Club Kidsoft

The magazine was published at a time when Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, Print Shop, and other kid-friendly products were developed and published by entrepreneurial software firms specializing in original children's software.

Emigrant Springs

A different Emigrant Springs in Oregon is located on the Oregon Trail.

Fort Bernard

Fort Bernard was a small trading post in Wyoming, along the North Platte River on the Oregon Trail.

Fort Bridger

In 1845, Lanford Hastings published a guide entitled The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California, which advised California emigrants to leave the Oregon Trail, at Fort Bridger, pass through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile waterless drive, loop around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoin the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass).

Fort Independence

Fort Independence (Missouri), in Independence, Missouri; the starting point of the Oregon Trail

Fort Laramie, Wyoming

The town is named after historic Fort Laramie, an important stop on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails as well as a staging point for various military excursions.

Fort McPherson National Cemetery

Fort McPherson was established in 1863 as an outpost to protect travellers along the Oregon and California Trails, and to keep the peace with the local Native Americans.

Glenrock, Wyoming

Glenrock, known as Deer Creek Station, had its beginning as a mail and stage station along the Oregon Trail.

Grace Raymond Hebard

This affiliation helped point her towards her new research pursuit, spearheading trail marking in Wyoming for the Oregon Trail and other pioneer routes.

History of rail in Oregon

William Williams Chapman, Surveyor General of Oregon from 1857 to 1861, proposed a railroad along the Oregon Trail from Portland, over the Blue Mountains, along the Snake River, then south to the transcontinental railroad at Salt Lake.

Laramie Peak

Laramie Peak was an important landmark for the settlers on the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail.

Meek Mansion

William Meek came to the West Coast in 1846, carrying seeds and grafted trees, via the Oregon Trail.

Mr. Tucket

It is about 14 year old Francis Tucket who strays from his family's wagon on the Oregon Trail and is captured by the Pawnee.

Oakley G. Kelly

In October 1924, Kelly piloted Ezra Meeker along portions of the Oregon Trail to generate support for marking and preserving the historic route using the same airplane in which Kelley had set the record: a single-engine, high-wing Army Fokker T-2.

Old Cariboo Road

Connecting to the Oregon Trail at Wallula, it ran north across Quincy Flats past Moses Lake, then crossed the lower Grand Coulee at present day Coulee City.

Oregon Trail, Wells Springs Segment

Bomb craters near the trail were created by practice bombing runs during World War II, when the range was controlled by the United States Army.

The agency in charge of the range in the 21st century is the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in the U.S. state of Washington.

Puget Sound region

After arriving along the Oregon Trail, many settlers wandered north to what is now Washington and settled the Puget Sound area.

Rain follows the plow

Emigrants on the Oregon Trail began reporting that the land in western Nebraska, previously known for its yellowed, dry vegetation during the summer, had seemingly become green.

Rosa 'Harison's Yellow'

Harison's Yellow is naturalized at abandoned house sites through the west and is found as a feral rose along the Oregon Trail.

Settler

Although they are often thought of as traveling by sea—the dominant form of travel in the early modern era—significant waves of settlement could also use long overland routes, such as the Great Trek by the Boer-Afrikaners in South Africa, or the Oregon Trail in the United States.

Shannon Applegate

She is a direct descendant of Charles Applegate who blazed the Oregon Trail in 1843 along with his brothers, Jesse Applegate and Lindsay Applegate.

Trabing Station-Crazy Woman Crossing

In the spring 1863, John Bozeman and his associates scouted for a direct route from the goldfields at Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming to connect with the Oregon Trail, which was then the major passage to the West Coast.

Volkswagen Blues

While on the road, they discuss language, literature, American expansion, the Oregon Trail, etc., and their trip becomes a metaphor for the history of the French exploration of North America.

Wagluhe

In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wagluhe camp to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming when the U.S. Army first garrisoned the old trading post to protect and supply wagon trains of white migrants along the Oregon Trail.

Wasco County, Oregon

The Dalles served initially as a way station on the Oregon Trail as it approached the Willamette Valley.

Weston, Missouri

William Buffalo Bill Cody was at one time a resident of Weston, and the town was a major "jumping off" point for the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush.

William Ridenbaugh

The paper would chronicle early settlement of the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail.


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