2,000 miles
A long Journey Makes Long Jobs
Many Settlers moving to Oregon country and other western areas followed the 2,000 mile long Oregon Trail, which stretched from places such as Independence, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa, west into Oregon Country
Settlers began their journey to Oregon in the mid-1830s. The first large-scale migration of settlers, known as the Oregon Trail, took place in 1843 when around 1,000 people made the journey from the Midwest to Oregon.
I think it was on 1840 to 1860
Their journey was finished when they reached the Pacific Ocean near the present day town of Warrenton, Oregon which is close to the city of Astoria, Oregon.
April was a good month to leave on the Oregon Trail.
Oregon Country Fair was created in 1969.
Austria is a country in Europe. You can not walk from Oregon, a state in the USA, to a country in Europe, unless you walked across the North Pole, when it was frozen, which would Kill you.
Oregon trail? Oregon trail?
Amazing storied spread throughout Oregon about how the sun always shone there; wheat grew as tall as a man. One tale claimed that pigs were "running about,....round and fat , already cooked with knives and forks sticking in them so you can cut off a slice whenever you were hungry." Such stories encouraged many people to make the 2000 mile journey to Oregon.
Oregon trail? Oregon trail?
why did americans want control of the Oregon country