4-5 months. If you left too late, you could get caught up in the Rockies in the winter, which often proved fatal. If you left too early, there was mud ans snow and not enough grass for the oxen.
The Oregon Trail started in Missouri then ended in Oregon.
To Oregon, California, and Washington
It took about $600.00 in their time... So you had to be VERY rich to go on the Oregon Trail.
No one "invented" it. It was a route settlers took to go to Oregon.
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They went so they could go for new land.
They wanted to go to get gold.
it depends
On average, about 15 hours and 13 minutes, depending on where in Oregon you go to.
The people on the Oregon Trail wanted to go the Oregon territory, or what is now Washington and Oregon. Why? because the letters and rumors of Oregon Territory's rich and natural beauty. The people wanted to go west for many reasons; to explore, to get free farmland, and to build homes, farms, towns, and after a wile, cities. The trail was also the fastest way to Oregon.
Because the Mormons used the Oregon trail as far as it went in the direction they wanted to go. The Oregon trail was a well-established trail that had plenty of good drinking water all along the way. From Nebraska to Wyoming, the Oregon trail was the best route. The Mormon trail turns south in Wyoming and enters Utah, while the Oregon trail continues on to Oregon.
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