There really wasn't any set campgrounds on the trails west because you were never quite sure how far you were going to get in a given day. So you just stopped when you needed to start making camp.
A well established trail that they used on their journey west.
Obviously it's because the Mormons traveled the trail.
mormons I believe..
Group that migrated westward along the Oregon Trail who wanted to escape persecution
The Oregon Trail was not still in existence in 1960...
The early Mormons murdered innocent people. Look up Mountain Meadows massacre. The early Mormons were thought to be involved in masonry/satanism.
The Mormon and Oregon trails split at what is called the Hastings Cutoff which began at Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming.
None. The Mormons did not travel west because of a economic depression.
The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.
The Mormon Trail.
The trail you seek is the Oregon Trail.
Yes, the Oregon Trail went through Oregon.