USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, the Reverend Henry and Eliza Spalding, and William H. Gray-successfully crossed the North American continent from New York State to the largely unknown land called Oregon.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were just newly married when they traveled from St. Louis to the Walla Walla Valley with their fellow missionaries, Henry and Eliza Spalding. They followed the trail along the Platte River and took the South Pass through the mountains that Jedediah Smith had taken in the 1820s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wyeth-Lee Party In 1834, New York Methodist minister Jason Lee came to the Oregon Country as the first of these missionaries, to establish the first American settlement and to convert the native population.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first attempt to travel the Oregon Trail by wagon was fortunately recorded through the writings of Narcissa Whitman. She and her husband Marcus led a small group of missionary Presbyterians from New York to Oregon in 1836.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fur traders had books written about their adventures out west. The first person to follow the entire route of the Oregon Trail was Robert Stuart of Astoria in 1812-13.