Friday, February 04, 2022
The Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail, also called Oregon-California Trail, in U.S. history, an overland trail between Independence, Missouri, and Oregon City, near present-day Portland, Oregon, in the Willamette River valley. It was one of the two main emigrant routes to the American West in the 19th century, the other being the southerly Santa Fe Trail from Independence to Santa Fe (now in New Mexico). In addition, branches from each main trail provided connections to destinations in California, and a spur of the northerly Oregon route, part of the Oregon Trail, led to the Great Salt Lake region of what is now northern Utah.
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Have you read Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose?
ReplyDeleteNot that I can remember. I'll have to check it out.
DeleteIf it's half as good as 'Nothing Like It In The World' it'll be good.
DeleteThanks for the tip.
Undaunted Courage is an awesome book
DeleteHighly recommend.
Agree with Elmo, read 'Nothing Like It In the World', the story of the transcontinental railroad which was excellent and will have to check that one out and some of his other works as well.
ReplyDeleteMy wife's g grandmother came west over the trail as a child. In a later interview she tells of an instance where a man in the party who wanted to kill an Indian did so, killing an Indian woman. The leaders of the band of Indians made it clear that the entire wagon train could suffer or they could hand over the killer. The vote was to give the killer up. Last she saw of him, he was disappearing over a rise making a lot of noise in the middle of a bunch of Indians. They were hard times requiring hard people. The dilemmas movies and TV like to portray were often pretty cut-and-dried.
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