Who traveled 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

The Oregon Trail was used after the civil war by homesteaders moving west. It was a major trail to settle the Northwest Territory.

IMPROVED ANSWER:

In 1834, Methodists missionaries established the first permanent American settlement in the Willamette Valley. The first large overland migration into Oregon came in the year of 1843. That year, about a thousand people traveled the Oregon Trail and they settled in the Willamette Valley.

Hundreds of American settlers arrived each year from then on.

Answer 3

Anybody with a wagon and fur traders. Also merchants.

Answer 4

A branch off the Oregon trail that led to Califorina and become know has the Califorina trail.

Answer 5

one person was lola baldwin. i got that off a nother web site

Answer 6

Webb, James and Christine

Answer 7

People

Answer 8

daly

Answer 9

Marcus Whitman,Peter Burnett,Jesse Applegate,John Gant