Who traveled the oregon trail?

Many people traveled on the Oregon trail. Elder people 50 or under most likely would not travel on the Oregon trail because of the danger or other things they can encounter. many young people the ages of 40 or younger or maybe a little bit older would travel on it. read more

Oregon Trail An overview of the Oregon Trail. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The Oregon Trail, which stretched for about 2,000 miles (3,200 km), flourished as the main means for hundreds of thousands of emigrants to reach the Northwest from the early 1840s through the 1860s. read more

The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of the future state of Kansas, and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. read more