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Romantic Tales - Western

The Journey West

wpeE.gif (4416 bytes)The 1800s were a time for adventure and opportunity. Traveling out west was a place for the restless, poor, or ambitious men and women to make a new life. Making the decision to cross the hundreds of miles of open prairie was indeed an arduous one. Transportation consisted of putting your supplies, possessions and family into a wagon and taking the trek westward.

The Oregon Trail

Groups headed out west by following specific routes, the most well known route being the Oregon Trail. The route led to Oregon’s Willamette Valley with one section directed to California. The route commenced in Missouri and the pioneer traveled over 2,000 miles arriving in Oregon about four months later.

The Oregon Trail’s earliest travelers were adventurers, missionaries, and fur traders.

Pioneers began using the Oregon Trail in the early 1840s. Nearly 14,000 people had made the trek west by 1848. Groups continued to travel west through the 1860s. By the time the railroad was installed in 1869, travelers could travel west in comparative ease and comfort.

 

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West By Covered Wagon, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Walker & Company, New York, NY, 1995

 

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