USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Oregon Trail was a major route that people took when migrating to the western part of the United States. Between 1841 and 1869, hundreds of thousands of people traveled westward on the trail. Many of them traveled in large wagon trains using covered wagons to carry their belongings.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overland Route The journey took emigrants across the northern Plains, over the Rocky Mountains, through the Great Basin, and finally over the Sierra Nevada Mountains into California. Miners risked sickness and accidents over their 2, 000 mile journey to reach the gold fields.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first overland wagon train to reach California arrived in 1844 by leaving the Oregon Trail after crossing the Raft River in Idaho. From there they followed Nevada’s Humboldt River west to the Sierra Nevada mountains, up the Truckee River and over Donner Pass to Sacramento, California.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Oregon Route From Independence, Missouri, the trail folowed the Little Blue, Platte, Sweetwater, Snake, and Columbia Rivers through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. Emigrants typically traveled 12 to 15 miles per day and it took 4 to 6 months to travel the 2, 000 miles.

Detailed explanation-5: -The California Trail offered several paths to Oregon and California. Sharing its westerly route from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains with the Oregon Trail, sections of the California Trail diverged in Wyoming and Idaho, following a more southern route through Nevada to California and southern Oregon.