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Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was an overland wagon route of about 3,500 km from Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. From the early 1840s to the 1860s hundreds of thousands of emigrants used it and its branches to Oregon and California, travelling for four to six months. It drove American settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the displacement of Native peoples along its route.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Oregon Trail. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/oregon-trail
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- “Oregon Trail.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/oregon-trail. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Oregon Trail.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/oregon-trail.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Oregon Trail’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/oregon-trail (Accessed: ).
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