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Article: Oregon Trail
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- Dictionary of American History
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OREGON TRAIL
OREGON TRAIL,
one of several routes traveled in the mid-nineteenth century by pioneers seeking to settle in the western territories. Over a period of about thirty years, roughly 1830 to 1860, some 300,000 Americans crowded these overland trails. The Oregon Trail was first traveled in the early 1840s. Only some 5,000 or so had made it to Oregon Territory by 1845, with another 3,000 making their way to California three years later. This trickle would turn into a flood in the following decade.
The Oregon Trail totaled some 2,000 miles. The Oregon and California Trails followed the same path for almost half of this journey, so over landers headed to either destination faced ...
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Article: `SEARCH OF THE OREGON TRAIL' OVERTURNS SOME MOVIE ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
April 26, 1996 ;
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... ... Keach narrates. The Oregon Trail stretched 2,000 miles ... In Search of the Oregon Trail'' corrects some of ... trek. The mile-long wagon trains existed only in the ... doing something on the Oregon Trail,'' Farrell recalled ...
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