Historic Oregon City
compiled by Karen Bassett, Jim Renner, and Joyce White copyright 1998 ~ all rights reserved Oregon Trails Coordinating Council Significance In 1847, a cutoff providing a link between the main stem of the Oregon Trail and the Barlow Road was established to save Oregon Trail …
compiled by Karen Bassett, Jim Renner, and Joyce White copyright 1998 ~ all rights reserved Oregon Trails Coordinating Council Significance The Applegate Trail is an alternate southern route of the Oregon Trail and was blazed from west to east, intersecting the California Trail at the …
Most of the emigrants on the Oregon Trail were between the ages of 15 and 35. John Mark was a 52 year old veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife Martha was 50 when they set out for Oregon in the spring of …
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions maintained three principal missionary outposts in the Oregon Country: in 1836-37, the missions at Waiilatpu and Lapwai (near the modern cities of Walla Walla, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho, respectively) were built, and in 1838 the ABCFM reinforced …