MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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forts and Fur Trading Post
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Detailed explanation-1: -American businessman John Astor was the first to establish a fur trading post in the Oregon Country. Astor founded the American Fur Company and sent an expedition to Oregon to establish the commercial settlement of Fort Astor (now known to us as the city of Astoria) in 1811.
Detailed explanation-2: -Several fur trading posts were passed by Oregon Trail emigrants near where trails led to the various rendezvous points. Fort John was an American Fur Company post on the Oregon Trail near Scotts Bluff. It replaced an earlier Robidoux Trading Post. Two competing fur trading posts were Fort Bernard and Fort Platte.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were slightly different paths for reaching Oregon but, for the most part, settlers crossed the Great Plains until they reached their first trading post at Fort Kearny, Nebraska, averaging between ten and fifteen miles per day.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were seven main forts along the Oregon Trail-Forth Bridger, Fort Kearney, Forth Laramie, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, and Fort Vancouver and the Whitman Mission are the ones most often mentioned.