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Oregon Trail Resources
- Oregon Trail Map from the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
- Clickable Oregon Trail in Oregon
- Buffalo on the Oregon Trail
- Churning Butter -- Make your own homemade butter following these simple directions
- Pioneer Food Recipes -- Includes pioneer recipes for jonnycakes, corn fitters, war cake, hardtack, and corntack
- Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California by Lansford W. Hastings -- Full-text online version of this famous book originally published in 1846. Chapter 15 gives advice to pioneers on selecting the equipment, choosing what supplies to take, and the method of traveling.
- Provisions and Prices -- What the emigrants brought along and how much it cost
- End of the Oregon Trail: Oregon City -- Historical Gazette account of the city that arose at the end of the Oregon Trail
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Historic Sites on the Oregon Trail -- Includes photos, drawings, and descriptions of 30 famous sites and landmarks visited by many of the pioneers who traveled along the Oregon Trail.
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Pioneer Families -- Short biographies of 26 emigrant families who crossed the Oregon Trail
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Aurora Colony Historical Society, OR "The Old Aurora Colony Museum houses all that remains of a way of life which began arriving in Aurora , OR in 1856. The Utopian society of Aurora, Oregon was established by Dr. William Keil as the site of what was to be his last communal settlement."
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Types of Covered Wagons -- Provides illustrations of the three basic wagons of the time: emigrant, prairie schooner, and Conestoga
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Prairie Schooners -- Includes an illustration of the main parts of a prairie schooner
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- © 2002-2010 Richard Rasmussen (aka Rodeo Rich)
Updated 07/08/2009
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