MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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1841
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1956
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1876
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1990
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and trappers from about 1811 to 1840 and was only passable on foot or on horseback. By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first overland immigrants to Oregon, intending primarily to farm, came in 1841 when a small band of 70 pioneers left Independence, Missouri.
Detailed explanation-3: -When he returned to the West in 1843, Marcus Whitman helped to guide the first of the great wagon trains over the path that would become famous as the Oregon Trail. The wagon train, which came to be called the Great Migration of 1843, was made up of 1, 000 pioneers traveling in 100 wagons.