Historical Marker Series

Oregon Trail

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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1O3K_marking-the-end-of-the-oregon-trail-1844_Olympia-WA.html
(Marker title is inscription.)
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Crossing rivers was the most dangerous activity emigrants faced on their journey west. By the time weary pioneers enroute (sic) to Oregon, California, or Utah reached the east bank of the Green River, they had been on the trail for several months. Utah was …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1OWN_one-day-at-a-time_-WY.html
For the hundreds of people heading west, life was one day at a time. The travelers had settled into the monotonous routine of life on the trail - up before dawn, an early breakfast, hitch up the stock, and begin the day's journey. Upon safely crossed th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1P80_old-oregon-trail_Cokeville-WY.html
used from 1812 to 1912 Monument erected by Ezra Meeker
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PGQ_mcauleys-road_Montpelier-ID.html
Coming west with Ezra Meeker in 1852, Thomas McAuley decided to build a road to let emigrants bypass Big Hill. Worst of all Oregon Trail descents, Big Hill needed replacement. Eliza McAuley reported that her brother Tom "fished awhile, then took a ram…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PHM_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
"the steepest and longest ascent we have made on the route..." - James Wilkins Looking east across the fields is Big Hill, one of the most difficult obstacles along the 2,000-mile Oregon/California Trail. The trail crosses the Thomas Fork, north of Bea…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PHN_idahos-emigrant-trails_Montpelier-ID.html
Westward-bound emigrants entered Idaho after crossing Thomas Fork Valley. They soon encountered the climb and descent of Big Hill, witnessed nature's curiosities at Soda Springs, and discovered willing traders at Fort Hall. In 1843 wagons first rolled pas…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PHO_one-continual-stream_Montpelier-ID.html
"One continual stream of honest looking open harted people going west" - James Cayman, mountain man, captured this sentiment in his diary as he watched pioneers heading west in 1846. Between 1841 and 1869 nearly 300,000 farmers, merchants, miners and a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PHP_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
"... the greatest impediment on the whole route from the United States to Fort Hall." - Theodore Talbot, 1843 Near the Wyoming/Idaho border the pioneers face Big Hill, on of the most challenging obstacles of their journey. The dusty Oregon/California Tr…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1PHQ_the-mcauley-cutoff_Montpelier-ID.html
On April 7, 1852, seventeen-year-old Eliza Ann McAuley, with her older brother Thomas and sister Margaret, left Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to travel overland to California. For a time they were accompanied by the "Eddyville Company," led by William Buck and Ezra…
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