USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The route of the Oregon /California/Mormon Pioneer Trails has been called “the nation’s longest graveyard.” Nearly one in ten emigrants who set off on the trail did not survive. The following is a list of the main causes of death along the trail from 1841 until 1869: Disease. Gunshot wounds.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2, 000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. The trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Not everyone made it to the end of the Oregon trail. Many died. The conservative estimates are that around 5% parishes. There were an estimated 300, 000 pioneers that traveled the road which means approximately 15, 000 were buried along the trail side.

Detailed explanation-5: -There’s Oregon’s 455-mile slice of the famous Pacific Crest Trail, a thru-hiking trail that in its entirety stretches more than 2, 000 miles from Canada to Mexico. There’s also the Oregon Desert Trail, a 750-mile, W-shaped path through the arid landscape of Eastern Oregon.