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Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later in life he worked to memorialize the Trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth.
Stateline Campground, Kanab, Utah: Designated a National Scenic Trail in 2009. Art Loeb Trail: 30.1 48 North Carolina Davidson River Campground, Transylvania County, North Carolina: Daniel Boone Boy Scout Camp, Haywood County, North Carolina: Located in Pisgah National Forest; intersects Mountains-to-Sea Trail: Backbone Trail: 68 109
Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. [5] The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival ...
More than 1,300 people already have responded with their thoughts on four trails that would connect locations without using existing busy roads. Door County village extends survey deadline for ...
The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [1] east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what is now the states of Kansas , Nebraska , and Wyoming .
One of Oregon's most unique mountain bike rides follows a route pioneered by Native Americans and turned into a wagon road in the late 1800s and 1900s
There are many historic trails and roads in the United States which were important to the settlement and development of the United States including those used by American Indians. The lists below include only those routes in use prior to the creation of the American Highway System in 1926.
In the early 1860s, a Pony Express station was located about 5 miles (8 km) west of where the wagon trails went up the bluff. During construction of Interstate 80, the steep part of the bluffs were cut away but wagon ruts remained, which are marked by iron hoops signifying wagon wheels. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places ...