Oregon Trail: The Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean |
Contents
ALTERNATE ROUTE NEBRASKAWYOMING | 35 |
MISSOURIIOWA | 37 |
NEBRASKA | 48 |
WYOMING | 78 |
Wyoming Line to Pocatello US | 103 |
US 287 and unnumbered dirt road | 162 |
SIDE ROUTES | 187 |
Bridgeport Neb to Horse Creek Treaty Grounds | 211 |
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arrived Astorians became Bluffs Bonneville Bridger buffalo building built California camp canyon carried cattle Cheyenne Columbia River Council Bluffs Creek crosses dirt road early eastern emigrants established expedition feet Fort Bridger Fort Hall Fort Laramie Fort Vancouver Fremont gold graveled road Green River highway hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunting Idaho Indians journey Julesburg junction Kansas killed land Laramie later Lewis and Clark miles Missouri River Mormon mountains named nearby Nebraska North Platte North Platte River North West Company northwest Omaha Oregon Trail party Pioneers plains Platte River Pony Express prairie railroad ranch reached region rock route Saints settlement settlers Slade Snake River South Pass spring stage station stream supplies territory thousand town trading post trappers travelers tribes trip Union Pacific R.R. Valley wagon trains West western westward winter wrote Wyoming
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Page 5 - On that day the realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast basin of the Mississippi, from its frozen northern springs to the sultry borders of the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains — a region of savannas and forests, sun-cracked deserts and grassy prairies, watered by a thousand rivers, ranged by a thousand warlike tribes...