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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Category: History
Details: Words: 701 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Oregon Trail
OREGON TRAIL
The Great Plains The Oregon Trail was an emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country. This was the way to travel back in the 1840’s through the 1860’s. In 1843 the “Great Emigration” began and the west would never be the same after the out set of the travelers.
The pioneers traveled by wagon train. They did not, however, follow any single narrow route. In open …showed first 75 words of 701 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 701 total…and Columbia rivers. Traders returning from Astoria also used the trail. Benjamin Bonneville is credited with taking the first wagons through South Pass in the 1830's. Nathaniel J. Wyeth also led companies over the trail. John C. Fremont surveyed a portion of the route in 1842 for the United States Army.
Poo yes, the emigrant to the west used “buffalo chips” as a fuel source. Children would occasionally throw them around in a Frisbee like manner.
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