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Oregon Trail
The route was marked by mileposts, both natural and man-made: Chimney Rock, Scotts Bluff, Fort Laramie and Independence Rock - images which turned an entire nation's eyes to the West. Learn more about the Westward Expansion Movement.
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The
Oregon Trail, a 2,000 mile long route that stretched from Independence,
Missouri, to Oregon City pointed the way west for an estimated 300,000 pioneers
and settlers in the middle of the 19th century. What turned out to be the
largest voluntary peacetime mass migration in human history was critical to
America's history as it sought to become a nation that stretched from "sea to
shining sea".