MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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St. Joseph Missoui
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Independence Missouri
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Omaha Nebraska
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Missoura
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Detailed explanation-1: -The initial jumping-off spot for emigrants to Oregon was Independence, Missouri. Its location on both the Missouri River and the Santa Fe Trail destined it for this status.
Detailed explanation-2: -Two of the most popular early outfitting or “jumping off points” were Independence and St. Joseph in western Missouri. Once the river was dredged and steamboats could reach it in the early 1850s, Council Bluffs, Iowa became the most popular Oregon Trail starting place.
Detailed explanation-3: -A map of Passport and Places to Go locations for National Historic Trails. The location of frenzied outfitting activity throughout the mid-1800s, Independence was the jumping-off point for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails and one of the starting points of the California Trail.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. It was not a road in any modern sense, only parallel ruts leading across endless prairie, sagebrush desert, and mountains.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.