What was it like to travel the Oregon Trail?

Whatever the reason, people traveling the Oregon Trail had a goal in mind. It united them through hardship and kept them going day after day. The Homestead Act was a big motivator, which said people could claim 160 acres of land if they promised to grow crops on it. read more

The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. read more

The landscape across Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming along US-20 and a parallel highway, US-26, is still as lonesome as it was more than 150 years ago, when pioneer families followed this one-way route west to the promised lands of the Pacific Coast. read more