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Trying to transport their extensive fur collection down the Sweetwater and North Platte River, they found after a near disastrous canoe crash that the rivers were too swift and rough for water passage. On July 4, , they cached their furs under a dome of rock they named Independence Rock and started their long trek on foot to the Missouri River.
Upon arriving back in a settled area they bought pack horses on credit and retrieved their furs. They had re-discovered the route that Robert Stuart had taken in —eleven years before. Thomas Fitzpatrick was often hired as a guide when the fur trade dwindled in Smith was killed by Comanche natives around Up to 3, mountain men were trappers and explorers , employed by various British and United States fur companies or working as free trappers, who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about to the early s.
They usually traveled in small groups for mutual support and protection. Trapping took place in the fall when the fur became prime. Mountain men primarily trapped beaver and sold the skins. Some were more interested in exploring the West.
The trading supplies were brought in by a large party using pack trains originating on the Missouri River. These pack trains were then used to haul out the fur bales. They normally used the north side of the Platte River—the same route used 20 years later by the Mormon Trail. For the next 15 years the American rendezvous was an annual event moving to different locations, usually somewhere on the Green River in the future state of Wyoming.
Each rendezvous, occurring during the slack summer period, allowed the fur traders to trade for and collect the furs from the trappers and their Native American allies without having the expense of building or maintaining a fort or wintering over in the cold Rockies. In only a few weeks at a rendezvous a year’s worth of trading and celebrating would take place as the traders took their furs and remaining supplies back east for the winter and the trappers faced another fall and winter with new supplies.
Trapper Jim Beckwourth described the scene as one of «Mirth, songs, dancing, shouting, trading, running, jumping, singing, racing, target-shooting, yarns, frolic, with all sorts of extravagances that white men or Indians could invent. He had a crew that dug out the gullies and river crossings and cleared the brush where needed. This established that the eastern part of most of the Oregon Trail was passable by wagons. In the late s the HBC instituted a policy intended to destroy or weaken the American fur trade companies.
Beginning in , it visited the American Rendezvous to undersell the American traders—losing money but undercutting the American fur traders. By the fashion in Europe and Britain shifted away from the formerly very popular beaver felt hats and prices for furs rapidly declined and the trapping almost ceased.
Fur traders tried to use the Platte River, the main route of the eastern Oregon Trail, for transport but soon gave up in frustration as its many channels and islands combined with its muddy waters were too shallow, crooked and unpredictable to use for water transport. The Platte proved to be unnavigable. The Platte River and North Platte River Valley, however, became an easy roadway for wagons, with its nearly flat plain sloping easily up and heading almost due west.
There were several U. He explored most of Idaho and the Oregon Trail to the Columbia. The account of his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in Army’s Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Carson led three expeditions from to over parts of California and Oregon. In , Henry H. The group was the first to travel in wagons all the way to Fort Hall, where the wagons were abandoned at the urging of their guides.
They used pack animals for the rest of the trip to Fort Walla Walla and then floated by boat to Fort Vancouver to get supplies before returning to start their missions. Other missionaries, mostly husband and wife teams using wagon and pack trains, established missions in the Willamette Valley, as well as various locations in the future states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
On May 1, , a group of eighteen men from Peoria, Illinois , set out with the intention of colonizing the Oregon country on behalf of the United States of America and drive out the HBC operating there. The men of the Peoria Party were among the first pioneers to traverse most of the Oregon Trail. They were initially led by Thomas J.
Farnham and called themselves the Oregon Dragoons. They carried a large flag emblazoned with their motto » Oregon Or The Grave «. Although the group split up near Bent’s Fort on the South Platte and Farnham was deposed as leader, nine of their members eventually did reach Oregon. Meek , and their families reached Fort Walla Walla with three wagons that they had driven from Fort Hall. Their wagons were the first to reach the Columbia River over land, and they opened the final leg of Oregon Trail to wagon traffic.
In , the Bartleson-Bidwell Party was the first emigrant group credited with using the Oregon Trail to emigrate west. The group set out for California, but about half the party left the original group at Soda Springs , Idaho, and proceeded to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, leaving their wagons at Fort Hall. On May 16, , the second organized wagon train set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than pioneers. The group broke up after passing Fort Hall with most of the single men hurrying ahead and the families following later.
In what was dubbed «The Great Migration of » or the «Wagon Train of «, an estimated to 1, emigrants left for Oregon. The winter before, Marcus Whitman had made a brutal mid-winter trip from Oregon to St. Louis to appeal a decision by his mission backers to abandon several of the Oregon missions.
He joined the wagon train at the Platte River for the return trip. When the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by agents from the Hudson’s Bay Company that they should abandon their wagons there and use pack animals the rest of the way, Whitman disagreed and volunteered to lead the wagons to Oregon. He believed the wagon trains were large enough that they could build whatever road improvements they needed to make the trip with their wagons.
The biggest obstacle they faced was in the Blue Mountains of Oregon where they had to cut and clear a trail through heavy timber. The wagons had to be disassembled and floated down the treacherous Columbia River and the animals herded over the rough Lolo trail to get by Mt. Nearly all of the settlers in the wagon trains arrived in the Willamette Valley by early October.
A passable wagon trail now existed from the Missouri River to The Dalles. Jesse Applegate’s account of the emigration, » A Day with the Cow Column in ,» has been described as «the best bit of literature left to us by any participant in the [Oregon] pioneer movement In , the Barlow Road was completed around Mount Hood, providing a rough but completely passable wagon trail from the Missouri River to the Willamette Valley: about 2, miles 3, km.
Married couples were granted at no cost except for the requirement to work and improve the land up to acres 2. As the group was a provisional government with no authority, these claims were not valid under United States or British law, but they were eventually honored by the United States in the Donation Land Act of The Donation Land Act provided for married settlers to be granted acres 1. Consensus interpretations, as found in John Faragher’s book, Women and Men on the Overland Trail , held that men and women’s power within marriage was uneven.
This meant that women did not experience the trail as liberating, but instead only found harder work than they had handled back east. However, feminist scholarship, by historians such as Lillian Schlissel, [25] Sandra Myres, [26] and Glenda Riley, [27] suggests men and women did not view the West and western migration in the same way. Whereas men might deem the dangers of the trail acceptable if there was a strong economic reward at the end, women viewed those dangers as threatening to the stability and survival of the family.
Once they arrived at their new western home, women’s public role in building western communities and participating in the western economy gave them a greater authority than they had known back East. There was a «female frontier» that was distinct and different from that experienced by men.
Women’s diaries kept during their travels or the letters they wrote home once they arrived at their destination supports these contentions. Women wrote with sadness and concern of the numerous deaths along the trail. Anna Maria King wrote to her family in about her trip to the Luckiamute Valley Oregon and of the multiple deaths experienced by her traveling group:. But listen to the deaths: Sally Chambers, John King and his wife, their little daughter Electa and their babe, a son 9 months old, and Dulancy C.
Norton’s sister are gone. Fuller lost his wife and daughter Tabitha. Eight of our two families have gone to their long home. Similarly, emigrant Martha Gay Masterson , who traveled the trail with her family at the age of 13, mentioned the fascination she and other children felt for the graves and loose skulls they would find near their camps.
Anna Maria King, like many other women, also advised family and friends back home of the realities of the trip and offered advice on how to prepare for the trip. Women also reacted and responded, often enthusiastically, to the landscape of the West.
Betsey Bayley in a letter to her sister, Lucy P. Griffith described how travelers responded to the new environment they encountered:. The mountains looked like volcanoes and the appearance that one day there had been an awful thundering of volcanoes and a burning world. The valleys were all covered with a white crust and looked like salaratus. Some of the company used it to raise their bread. In Young led a small, fast-moving group from their Winter Quarters encampments near Omaha , Nebraska, and their approximately 50 temporary settlements on the Missouri River in Iowa including Council Bluffs.
After ferrying across the Missouri River and establishing wagon trains near what became Omaha, the Mormons followed the northern bank of the Platte River in Nebraska to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming. They initially started out in with trains of several thousand emigrants, which were rapidly split into smaller groups to be more easily accommodated at the limited springs and acceptable camping places on the trail.
The much larger presence of women and children meant these wagon trains did not try to cover as much ground in a single day as Oregon and California bound emigrants, typically taking about days to cover the 1, miles 1, km trip to Salt Lake City.
The Oregon and California emigrants averaged about 15 miles 24 km per day. Between and , over 43, Mormon settlers and tens of thousands of travelers on the California Trail and Oregon Trail followed Young to Utah. Along the Mormon Trail, the Mormon pioneers established a number of ferries and made trail improvements to help later travelers and earn much needed money.
One of the better known ferries was the Mormon Ferry across the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between and and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated from to To get there, they helped build the Lassen Branch of the Applegate-Lassen Trail by cutting a wagon road through extensive forests. Many returned with significant gold which helped jump-start the Oregon economy.
The «forty-niners» often chose speed over safety and opted to use shortcuts such as the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff in Wyoming which reduced travel time by almost seven days but spanned nearly 45 miles 72 km of desert without water, grass, or fuel for fires. The adjusted [35] U. Census of California showed this rush was overwhelmingly male with about , males to 8, females with about 5, women over age The relative scarcity of women gave them many opportunities to do many more things that were not normally considered women’s work of this era.
The trail was still in use during the Civil War , but traffic declined after when the Panama Railroad across the Isthmus of Panama was completed. Paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships, often heavily subsidized to carry the mail, provided rapid transport to and from the east coast and New Orleans , Louisiana, to and from Panama to ports in California and Oregon.
Over the years many ferries were established to help get across the many rivers on the path of the Oregon Trail. During peak immigration periods several ferries on any given river often competed for pioneer dollars.
These ferries significantly increased speed and safety for Oregon Trail travelers. Ferries also helped prevent death by drowning at river crossings. In April , an expedition of U. Simpson left Camp Floyd, Utah , to establish an army supply route across the Great Basin to the eastern slope of the Sierras. This route went through central Nevada roughly where U. Route 50 goes today and was about miles km shorter than the «standard» Humboldt River California trail route.
The Army improved the trail for use by wagons and stagecoaches in and In —61 the Pony Express , employing riders traveling on horseback day and night with relay stations about every 10 miles 16 km to supply fresh horses, was established from St. Joseph, Missouri , to Sacramento, California. In , John Butterfield , who since had been using the Butterfield Overland Mail, also switched to the Central Route to avoid traveling through hostile territories during the American Civil War.
George Chorpenning immediately realized the value of this more direct route, and shifted his existing mail and passenger line along with their stations from the «Northern Route» California Trail along the Humboldt River. Several stage lines were set up carrying mail and passengers that traversed much of the route of the original Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and from there over the Central Overland Route to California.
By traveling day and night with many stations and changes of teams and extensive mail subsidies , these stages could get passengers and mail from the midwest to California in about 25 to 28 days.
The Pony Express folded in as they failed to receive an expected mail contract from the U. After the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in , telegraph lines usually followed the railroad tracks as the required relay stations and telegraph lines were much easier to maintain alongside the tracks. Telegraph lines to unpopulated areas were largely abandoned.
Offshoots of the trail continued to grow as gold and silver discoveries, farming, lumbering, ranching, and business opportunities resulted in much more traffic to many areas. Traffic became two-directional as towns were established along the trail. By the population in the states served by the Oregon Trail and its offshoots increased by about , over their census levels.
With the exception of most of the , population increase in California, most of these people living away from the coast traveled over parts of the Oregon Trail and its many extensions and cutoffs to get to their new residences.
Even before the famous Texas cattle drives after the Civil War, the trail was being used to drive herds of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep, and goats from the midwest to various towns and cities along the trails. According to studies by trail historian John Unruh the livestock may have been as plentiful or more plentiful than the immigrants in many years.
Large losses could occur and the drovers would still make significant profit. As the emigrant travel on the trail declined in later years and after livestock ranches were established at many places along the trail large herds of animals often were driven along part of the trail to get to and from markets. Contemporary interest in the overland trek has prompted the states and federal government to preserve landmarks on the trail including wagon ruts, buildings, and «registers» where emigrants carved their names.
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries there have been a number of re-enactments of the trek with participants wearing period garments and traveling by wagon. As the trail developed it became marked by many cutoffs and shortcuts from Missouri to Oregon. The basic route follows river valleys as grass and water were absolutely necessary. While the first few parties organized and departed from Elm Grove, the Oregon Trail’s primary starting point was Independence, Missouri , or Westport , which was annexed into modern day Kansas City , on the Missouri River.
Later, several feeder trails led across Kansas, and some towns became starting points, including Weston , Fort Leavenworth , Atchison , St. Joseph, and Omaha. The Oregon Trail’s nominal termination point was Oregon City , at the time the proposed capital of the Oregon Territory. However, many settlers branched off or stopped short of this goal and settled at convenient or promising locations along the trail.
Commerce with pioneers going further west helped establish these early settlements and launched local economies critical to their prosperity. At dangerous or difficult river crossings, ferries or toll bridges were set up and bad places on the trail were either repaired or bypassed.
Several toll roads were constructed. Gradually the trail became easier with the average trip as recorded in numerous diaries dropping from about days in to days 10 years later. Because it was more a network of trails than a single trail, there were numerous variations with other trails eventually established on both sides of the Platte, North Platte, Snake, and Columbia rivers.
With literally thousands of people and thousands of livestock traveling in a fairly small time slot the travelers had to spread out to find clean water, wood, good campsites, and grass. The dust kicked up by the many travelers was a constant complaint, and where the terrain would allow it there may have been between 20 and 50 wagons traveling abreast.
Travelers starting in Independence had to ferry across the Missouri River. After following the Santa Fe trail to near present-day Topeka , they ferried across the Kansas River to start the trek across Kansas and points west. Another busy «jumping off point» was St. Joseph —established in Joseph was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as one of the last supply points before heading over the Missouri River to the frontier. Joseph had good steamboat connections to St.
Louis and other ports on the combined Ohio , Missouri , and Mississippi River systems. During the busy season there were several ferry boats and steamboats available to transport travelers to the Kansas shore where they started their travels westward. Before the Union Pacific Railroad was started in , St.
Joseph was the westernmost point in the United States accessible by rail. The Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped several times in the future state of Iowa on their — expedition to the west coast. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in In the Mormons , expelled from Nauvoo, Illinois , traversed Iowa on part of the Mormon Trail and settled temporarily in significant numbers on the Missouri River in Iowa and the future state of Nebraska at their Winter Quarters near the future city of Omaha, Nebraska.
For those travelers who were bringing their teams to the Platte River junction, Kanesville and other towns became major jumping off places and supply points. In the Mormons established three ferries across the Missouri River and others established even more ferries for the spring start on the trail.
In the census there were about 8, mostly Mormons tabulated in the large Pottawattamie County, Iowa District The original Pottawattamie County was subsequently made into five counties and parts of several more. By most of the Mormon towns, farms and villages were largely taken over by non-Mormons as they abandoned them or sold them for not much and continued their migration to Utah.
After the towns of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Omaha est. After crossing Mount Oread at Lawrence , the trail crosses the Kansas River by ferry or boats near Topeka and crossed the Wakarusa and Black Vermillion rivers by ferries. West of Topeka, the route paralleled what is now U. Route 24 until west of St. The 2,mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other points west during the mids.
Travelers were inspired by dreams of gold and rich farmlands, but they were also motivated by difficult economic times in the east and diseases like yellow fever and malaria that were decimating the Midwest around The Oregon Trail was laid down by trappers in —, and was used by settlers from — From about to the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers.
But while the Conestoga was an indispensable part of trade and travel in the East, it was far too large and unwieldy to survive the rugged terrain of the frontier. These vehicles typically included a wooden bed about four feet wide and ten feet long.
When pulled by teams of oxen or mules, they could creak their way toward Oregon Country at a pace of around 15 to 20 miles a day. They could even be caulked with tar and floated across un-fordable rivers and streams. Prairie schooners were capable of carrying over a ton of cargo and passengers, but their small beds and lack of a suspension made for a notoriously bumpy ride.
With this in mind, settlers typically preferred to ride horses or walk alongside their wagons on foot. As traffic on the Oregon Trail increased, a bustling industry of frontier trading posts sprang up to supply food and equipment for the five-month haul.
In popular jumping-off points like Independence, Missouri, unscrupulous merchants made a killing by conning frightened pioneer families into buying more provisions than they actually needed.
The overloading meant that many sections of trail became junk heaps filled with discarded food barrels and wagon parts. During the Gold Rush of , pioneers reportedly abandoned a whopping 20, pounds of bacon outside its walls.
Contrary to the depictions of dime novels and Hollywood Westerns, attacks by the Plains Indians were not the greatest hazard faced by westbound settlers. At the most famous river crossing, on the North Platte River near Casper, Wyoming, emigrants often loaded their belongings onto crude wooden rafts or sealed their wagons with caulk before floating them across.
In , an enterprising group of Mormons built a sturdy raft and began charging other wagon parties to ferry them across.
Then, in , a Frenchman named Louis Guinard built a wooden bridge over the river, ending the era of perilous crossings over the North Platte. Taking a family of settlers across the Plains required a lot of labor, particularly on the part of female settlers.
Women were generally expected to complete their traditional tasks, including washing and mending clothes and preparing meals. Many women left detailed records of their experiences in journals—like this one from Lucia Eugenia Lamb Everett, who crossed the California trail in —which has allowed historians a rich source of material for understanding daily life on the overland trails.
The grueling Oregon Trail journey usually took four to six months. In , inventor Rufus Porter presented a new form of transportation that would allow settlers to go from New York to California in three days. Sadly, Porter was unable to attract investors for his airship, which he never completed.
In , a man named Samuel Peppard attached a canvas sail to a wagon and sailed across the breezy plains of Nebraska, reaching speeds of up to 40mph.
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The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mids to emigrate west. The trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon.
Without the Oregon Trail and the passing of the Oregon Donation Land Act in , which encouraged settlement in the Oregon Territory, American pioneers would have been slower to settle the American West in the 19th century. By the s, the Manifest Destiny had Americans in the East eager to expand their horizons. While Lewis and Clark had made their way west from to , merchants, traders and trappers were also among the first people to forge a path across the Continental Divide. But it was missionaries who really blazed the Oregon Trail.
Merchant Nathaniel Wyeth in led the first religious group, in addition to traders and naturalists, west to present-day Idaho , where they built an outpost. Determined to spread Christianity to American Indians on the frontier, doctor and Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman set out on horseback from the Northeast in to prove that the westward trail to Oregon could be traversed safely and further than ever before.
Upon returning home, Whitman married and set out again, this time with his young wife Narcissa and another Protestant missionary couple. The party made it to the Green River Rendezvous, then faced a grueling journey along Native American trails across the Rockies using Hudson Bay Company trappers as guides. In , the Whitman mission was closed by the American Missionary Board, and Whitman went back to the East on horseback where he lobbied for continued funding of his mission work. In the meantime, missionary Elijah White led over pioneers across the Oregon Trail.
When Whitman headed west yet again, he met up with a huge wagon train destined for Oregon. The group included wagons, about 1, people and thousands of livestock.
Their trek began on May 22 and lasted five months. It effectively opened the floodgates of pioneer migration along the Oregon Trail and became known as the Great Emigration of As more settlers arrived, the Cayuse resisted their encroachment.
After a measles epidemic broke out in , the Cayuse population was decimated, despite Whitman using his medical knowledge to help them. In the ongoing conflict, Whitman, his wife and some of the mission staff were killed; many more were taken hostage for over a month.
The incident sparked a seven-year war between the Cayuse and the federal government. Planning a five- to six-month trip across rugged terrain was no easy task and could take up to a year. They also had to purchase hundreds of pounds of supplies including flour, sugar, bacon, coffee, salt, rifles and ammunition. By far, the most important item for successful life on the trail was the covered wagon. It had to be sturdy enough to withstand the elements yet small and light enough for a team of oxen or mules to pull day after day.
Most wagons were about six feet wide and twelve feet long. They were usually made of seasoned hardwood and covered with a large, oiled canvas stretched over wood frames. In addition to food supplies, the wagons were laden with water barrels, tar buckets and extra wheels and axles. Contrary to popular belief, most of the wagons that journeyed the Oregon Trail were prairie schooners and not larger, heavier Conestoga wagons. A map of the Oregon Trail showing the westward route from Missouri to Oregon.
It was critical for travelers to leave in April or May if they hoped to reach Oregon before the winter snows began. Depending on the terrain, wagons traveled side by side or single file. 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.
From Fort Kearney, they followed the Platte River over miles to Fort Laramie, Wyoming , and then ascended the Rocky Mountains where they faced hot days and cold nights. Summer thunderstorms were common and made traveling slow and treacherous. The settlers gave a sigh of relief if they reached Independence Rock —a huge granite rock in Wyoming that marked the halfway point of their journey—by July 4 because it meant they were on schedule. Then they crossed the desert to Fort Hall , the second trading post.
From there they navigated Snake River Canyon and a steep, dangerous climb over the Blue Mountains before moving along the Columbia River to the settlement of Dalles and finally to Oregon City. Some people continued south into California , especially after the Gold Rush started in Many settlers looked at the Oregon Trail with an idealistic eye, but it was anything but romantic.
Most people died of diseases such as dysentery, cholera , smallpox or flu , or in accidents caused by inexperience, exhaustion and carelessness. It was not uncommon for people to be crushed beneath wagon wheels or accidentally shot to death, and many people drowned during perilous river crossings.
Travelers often left warning messages to those journeying behind them if there was an outbreak of disease, bad water or hostile Native American tribes nearby. As more and more settlers headed west, the Oregon Trail became a well-beaten path and an abandoned junkyard of surrendered possessions. It also became a graveyard for tens of thousands of pioneer men, women, children and countless livestock. Over time, conditions along the Oregon Trail improved. Bridges and ferries were built to make water crossings safer.
Settlements and additional supply posts appeared along the way which gave weary travelers a place to rest and regroup. Trail guides wrote guidebooks, so settlers no longer had to bring an escort with them on their journey. Unfortunately, however, not all the books were accurate and left some settlers lost and in danger of running out of provisions. With the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in Utah in , westward wagon trains decreased significantly as settlers chose the faster and more reliable mode of transportation.
It was also a main thoroughfare for massive cattle drives between and By , the railroads had all but eliminated the need to journey thousands of miles in a covered wagon. Settlers from the east were more than happy to hop on a train and arrive in the West in one week instead of six months.
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