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farmers,gold miners to find a better life in a land that had yet to be clamed

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Q: Who went on the Oregon Trail and why?
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Did Oregon get the Oregon trail?

Yes, the Oregon Trail went through Oregon.


Why was the Oregon trail named Oregon trail?

Beacuse it went to Oregon. But many trails branched off to other places.


What supplies went on the Oregon trail?

food and tools


Where were the people on the Oregon trail going to?

The Oregon Trail led to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.The Oregon Trail was a dirt wagon road that went from St. Louis, Missouri, up the Mississippi along the banks of the the Mississippi River to the Missouri. It went to the North Platt. From there it went through South Pass on through Idaho to the Columbia River and from there, along the banks of the Columbia to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.


What was the year when the first covered wagon arrived in California via the Oregon trail?

The first wagon train on the Oregon Trail moved in 1839-40, but, as the name suggests, they went to Oregon.After 1843, wagons using the California Trail usedt he eastern parts of the Oregon Trail to get to the California Trail.


Why to go to the Oregon trail?

They went so they could go for new land.


How fast did the wagon go on the Oregon trail?

they went five miles an hour


Why do you think the Oregon Trail stopped before reaching the pacific ocean?

The Oregon Trail went to the Willamette valley, where there was very good farm land. There was no farm land at the ocean!


What is a famous trail to Oregon?

The trail you seek is the Oregon Trail.


What kind of people went on the oregon trail?

Indians and pioneers in hopes of a new life


What was the path that the pioneers the followed into Oregon Oregon country?

Oregon trail? Oregon trail?


The Mormon Trail Oregon Trail Pony Express and California Trails likely overlap because they all?

they all went west