• Oregon Trail Overview Map
• Printable Oregon Trail Map from the In Search of the Oregon Trail web site
• Clickable Oregon Trail in Oregon
• Buffalo on the Oregon Trail
• Estimated Number of Pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail yearly from 1842-1854 -- Population chart
• Churning Butter -- Make your own homemade butter following these simple directions

• Hardtack and Corntack Recipes -- To construct your own 'tooth dullers,' follow these instructions.

• Pioneer Food Recipes

• 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
• Fantastic Facts About the Oregon Trail
• Hardships on the Oregon Trail
• 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. 
• National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center -- Baker City, OR
• Oregon Trail, The Trail West -- Newspaper Articles from the 1800's
• Oregon Trail online books from the overland period -- Links to full-text online reference books including the famous A Prairie
  Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions
• Oregon Trail Pioneers
• Oregon Trail Diaries and Emigrant Biographies
• Women on the Oregon Trail
• Outfitting for the Trail
• The Mountain Men -- Pioneers of the West
• Independence Rock, The Register of the Desert
• Chimney Rock, NE National Historic Site
• Deep Ruts Hill & Register Cliff, Wyoming
• Emigrant Springs, OR State Park
• South Pass on the Oregon Trail
• Whitman Mission National Historic Site, WA
• Emigrant Road - An Oregon Trail Adventure -- Follow the route of the pioneers and visit Oregon Trail sites as they exist today.
• Narcissa Whitman, American Martyr
• 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."
• End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center -- Provides much information about traveling on the Oregon Trail
• "The Oregon Trail" web site
• Oregon -- California Trails Association
• Rodeo Rich's Oregon Trail Web Page
• Westward HO! -- Travel the Trail with the Westward Ho! Wagontrain
• Types of Covered Wagons -- Provides illustrations of the three basic wagons of the time: emigrant, prairie schooner, and Conestoga
• Covered Wagons2
• Prairie Schooners -- Includes an illustration of the main parts of a prairie schooner
• Wagontrains
• In Search of the Oregon Trail -- Trivia Questions

© 2002-2007 Richard Rasmussen (aka Rodeo Rich)

Updated 12/30/2007