Who was the first person to go on the Oregon trail?

Answer 1

Many people traveled on the Oregon trail. Elder people 50 or under most likely would not travel on the Oregon trail because of the danger or other things they can encounter. many young people the ages of 40 or younger or maybe a little bit older would travel on it.about 3,000 migrants looking for a new life, gold, and money traveled this trail during the 1840's -1870's.The Oregon Trail was a common and shared route that forwarded the Western migration to California, Oregon Territory and Utah. Parts of the same trail system are called the Mormon Trail. Some guides chose different passes and sidetracks knowing where better pastures, timbers and game could be found. Some simply headed west with disasterous consequences. Almost 300,000 people traversed all or some small part of this grand adventure, with 53,000 going into Oregon, pver 200,000 reaching California and 43,000 stopping short in Utah. An estimated 100,000 that began the trek became turnarounds after being abandonded by their cash in advance guides. A few abandoned all and straggled back to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Some and they were a very rare breed began farming, produce and trade points along the route to help and to profit from this western migration. It was a very tough journey and some failed to find the golden dream after having seen the Elephant.

Few historical authors have captured the western migration and the history of the West as well as did James Michner in his epic novel Centennial. It portrays the hopes, dreams and aspirations of this brave force of migrants as well as failed hopes, trials and tribulations and dreams of the future.

The first post should be left unchanged because it represents the genuine aspirations of wealth versus the dream of betterment for a future for your family. Many who traversed the Oregon Trail spilled their blood as a right of passage (often by the accidental discharge of their own firearms) and rarely at the hands of Native Americans in defense of their homeland. Passage was readily granted but stopping squatting or leaving the accepted route of the Oregon Trail was fobidden by the Native American residents.

Who followed the Oregon Trail is a complex question but in truth they were the:

• Dreamers
• Exiles
• Grifters, Drifters and Con Artists
• Vagrants, bums the unemployed and the newcomers.
• Wealthy investors, entrepruners and visionaries but most of all they were
• Dreamers.

Answer 2

On May 1, 1839 a group of eighteen men from Peoria, Illinois set out with the intention to colonize the Oregon country on behalf of the United States of America and drive out the Hudson Bay Company operating there. The men of the Peoria Party were among the first pioneers to traverse most of the Oregon Trail.

The members included in this expedition were: Amos Cook, James L. Fash, Francis Fletcher, Owen Garrett, Joseph Holman, Quincy Adams Jordan, Ralph L. Kilbourne, Robert Moore, Obadiah A. Oakley, Thomas Jefferson Pickett, John Prichard, Sydney Smith, Chauncey Wood, John J. Wood, Charles Yates and Thomas Jefferson Farnham. They were later joined by John L. Moore, Robert Shortess and W. Blair. T.J. Farnham was elected leader and the company carried a flag, made by Farnham's wife, that had the motto "Oregon or the Grave!"

The party called themselves the Oregon Dragoons. Although the group split up near Bents Fort on the South Platte and Farnham was deposed as a leader, nine of their members eventually did reach Oregon

Answer 3

Robert Stuart was the first person to follow the entire route of the Oregon trail in 1812-1813

Answer 4

There was no "first person on the Oregon trail" it was built by many fur trappers.

Answer 5

not neccesarily discovered but was made by pioneers. Daniel Boone was one who helped to make the trail.

Answer 6

Danil Boone