offering settlers the right to claim 160 acres of federal land at a fixed price of $1.25 per acre. This is about $45 in today’s money so the Oregon Trail game’s premise of dogmatically heading ...

It’s looked this way since Oregon Trail settlers realized the region was a bovine paradise-in-the-making. Thanks to a slow-growing climate, rich alluvial soil and annual rainfall of more than 90 ...

They traveled along the Platte River, creating a new route on its north bank rather than risk encounters with other settlers on the Oregon Trail. The first half of the journey was along the plains ...

Mary Lynn Stuart, a member of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, says she can imagine the struggle of those on the Oregon Trail who had ... where settlers could rest and spend the night.

which was on the Oregon Trail that brought settlers to the Beaver State. Trillium Lake is just a short distance from Government Camp, a Bavarian-style alpine village that serves as a gateway to ...