Examples of Wagon Trails in the following topics:
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- By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.
- Wagon trails were cleared further and further west, eventually reaching all the way to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
- The eastern half of the trail was also used by travelers on the California Trail (from 1843), Bozeman Trail (from 1863), and Mormon Trail (from 1847), up to the respective locations at which the migrants on each turned off to their separate destinations.
- Missionary Marcus Whitman led the wagons on the last leg.
- In 1846, the Barlow Road was completed around Mount Hood, providing a rough but completely passable wagon trail from the Missouri river to the Willamette Valley: about 2,000 miles.
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- The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile, historic east-west wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.
- By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.
- Wagon trails were cleared increasingly further west, eventually reaching the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
- The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American west during the 19th century.
- So many wagons traveled the Oregon Trail that ruts are still visible along some sections.
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- Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail.
- From Council Bluffs, Iowa to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, the trail follows much the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trail; these trails are collectively known as the Emigrant Trail.
- The well organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo) known as the Mormon Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, traditionally assumed to have ended with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
- Wagon train migrations to the far west continued sporadically until the 20th century, but not everyone could afford to uproot and transport a family by railroad, and the transcontinental railroad network only serviced limited main routes.
- The trail was used for more than 20 years, until the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
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- The construction of the railroad resulted in the end of most of the far slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains.
- The railroad also led to a great decline of traffic on the Oregon and California Trail, which had helped populate much of the West.
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- Daniel Boone created the route in 1775, when he created a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky.
- Over time, this trail was lengthened to reach the falls of the Ohio at Louisville.
- Therefore, settlers from Pennsylvania had tended to migrate south along the Great Wagon Road through the Appalachian Valley and Shenandoah Valley.
- Beginning on March 10, 1775 Boone, along with thirty-five men, cut a trail from Kingsport, Tennessee through the forests and mountains to Kentucky.
- It was a rough mud trail, hardly more than a path; however, they were successful in carving out a road for settlers while staving off numerous Indian attacks.
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- Young led his followers along the Mormon Trail, a 1,300-mile route that Mormon pioneers traveled from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Wagon train migrations to the far west continued sporadically until the twentieth century, but not everyone could afford to uproot and transport a family by railroad, and the transcontinental railroad network only serviced limited main routes.
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- For example, in 1779, George Washington wrote to John Jay , who was serving as the president of the Continental Congress, "that a wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon load of provisions".
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- This abrupt and forced removal resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 Cherokees on what became known as the "Trail of Tears."
- In 1987, about 2,200 miles of trails were authorized by federal law to mark the removal of seventeen detachments of the Cherokee people.
- Called the "Trail of Tears National Historic Trail," it traverses portions of nine states and includes land and water routes.
- This map illustrates the route of the Trail of Tears.
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- Along the way, many died of disease and deprivation in what became known as the "Trail of Tears".
- Identify the demographic groups in which Jacksonian ideals found most favor and describe the Trail of Tears
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- A "Hoover wagon" was an automobile with horses hitched to it because the owner could not afford fuel.