Crossing mountains before facing snowfall
No
People got to Oregon by using the road called The Oregon Trail.
Over 500,000 people traveled on the Oregon Trail.
in 1859
No one "invented" it. It was a route settlers took to go to Oregon.
Actually, no. The Oregon Trail was also known as the Oregon-California Trail that allowed farmers, settlers, and families to travel east to either Oregon or Northern California. The wagon trail that allowed cargo, freight, cattle, and settlers from the east to Mexico was the Santa Fe Trail, which traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico and then onto Mexico.
Rough. It was hard on everyone.
tro protect settlers
Indians traded with the settlers.
the Oregon trail
Mostly unneeded food was thrown out along the Oregon trail, once the settlers moving west realized they had over packed...
The Oregon Trail, the Western trail, the mormom trail and the California trail during the gold rush in 1846
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