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  2. Overland Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century. While portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as a route alternative to the Oregon , California , and Mormon trails ...

  3. Westward expansion trails - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Trail, the longest of the overland routes used in the westward expansion of the United States, was first traced by settlers and fur traders for traveling to the Oregon Country. The main route of the Oregon Trail stopped at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Hall , a major resupply route along the trail near present-day Pocatello and where ...

  4. Central Overland Route - Wikipedia

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    "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco", by Horace Greeley (1860). Chapter XXV available at "The City of the Saints, Across the Rocky Mountains to California" by Richard Burton (1861). Available at "Roughing It" (Chapter 20), by Mark Twain (1872). Chapter XX available at "The Overland Mail", by Leroy R. Hafen (1929). A detailed ...

  5. Cherokee Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Trail was a historic overland trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1890s. The route was established in 1849 by a wagon train headed to the gold fields in California .

  6. Chisholm Trail - Wikipedia

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    1873 Map of Chisholm Trail with Subsidiary Trails in Texas (from Kansas Historical Society). The Chisholm Trail (/ˈt͡ʃɪzəm/ CHIZ-əm) was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, crossed the Red River into Indian Territory, and ended at Kansas rail stops.

  7. Oregon-California Trails Association - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon-California Trails Association is an interdisciplinary organization based at Independence, Missouri, United States.OCTA is dedicated to the preservation and protection of overland emigrant trails and the emigrant experience.

  8. Category:Trails and roads in the American Old West - Wikipedia

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    Overland Trail (18 P) P. Pony Express (3 C, 21 P) S. Santa Fe Trail (76 P) V. La Vereda del Monte (28 P) W. Whoop-Up Trail (6 P) Pages in category "Trails and roads ...

  9. Route of the Oregon Trail - Wikipedia

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    Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.