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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 ...
English: Map of the Gila Trail—Southern Emigrant Trail. A 19th century westward expansion route/wagon trail for Euro-American immigration into southwestern North America (1849 - 1860s). In present day Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico.
The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming that was shared by several popular emigrant trails during the 19th century, including the Trapper's Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Pony Express route ...
The South Platte River Trail Scenic and Historic Byway is a 19-mile (31 km) Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Sedgwick County, Colorado, USA.The byway follows the historic trails used during westward expansion.
Between 2019 and 2022, an approximately 17-mile (27 km) westward expansion of the trail into Fond du Lac County was constructed as part of a project to widen Highway 23; [4] 4.4 miles (7.1 km) of this length brought the trail to the Sheboygan County border. [1]
Westward expansion trails; Whoop-Up Trail This page was last edited on 5 June 2019, at 18:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A western extension of the trail was used by the XIT Ranch for trail drives connecting Tascosa to Dodge City until 1885. Afterwards, the northern portion of the trail connected Buffalo Springs to the XIT range on Cedar Creek, 60 miles north of Miles City, Montana. The trail passed through Lamar, Kit Carson, and Lusk. That trail was used from ...
Westward expansion was mostly undertaken by groups of young families. Daniel Boone was one frontiersman who pioneered the settlement of Kentucky. In the 1830s, the federal government forcibly deported the southeastern tribes to their own reservations in the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) via the "Trail of Tears". There they received annual ...