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End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center

FamilySearch Wiki - Oregon Trail

America's longest migration wagon trail and important trunk trail starting 1836 from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

In Search of the Oregon Trail

From a PBS series of the same name.

Oregon National Historic Trail (National Park Service)

The Oregon Trail passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.

Oregon Pioneers - The Oregon Territory and It's Pioneers

Lists of emigrants, sort by year.

Oregon Pioneers - The Wagon Train of 1843

Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Oregon/Washington BLM

Oregon Trail Map

Trail map of the Oregon trail route and clickable landmark point information. Map is overlaid on Google Maps for easy view of landmarks, roads, historic buildings, and trail remnants.

Oregon Trail Time Frame

A year by year description of events and travelers on the Oregon Trail from 1792-1843 designed to provide a context for those researching Oregon Trail history and pioneers.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

OREGON TRAIL: The Trail West

OREGON-TRAIL Mailing List (RootsWeb, archived on Archive-It)

For those who want to research their family history concerning anything to do with the Oregon Trail. The history of the trail is an appropriate topic for discussion as well as postings of wagon train lists, and anything else genealogical including stories of life as a pioneer, diaries, queries, books, etc. Western states involved would mostly be Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington; maybe even California, Utah and others. Time periods include around 1840-1900.

Paper Trail - Pioneer Wagon Train Diaries $

Paper Trail is the website database created by the Oregon-California Trails Association from thousands of trail-related documents of the mid-19th century western migration. Whether people traveled west for gold, land, religious freedom or new opportunity, they wrote diaries, letters, articles and recollections about the journey. From over 3,500 original documents Paper Trail organizes information into an easy-to-search database, featuring names, dates, routes, travel parties, locations and interesting features. The website also lists the library where each document or its copies may be found. The information from each document is accessible by subject codes and by a 6-page outline survey of each document in the Paper Trail website. Names searches are free. Reports require modest subscription.

The Oregon Trail

Map by Beverly Whitaker.

The Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA)

The Overland Trail

Trails across Wyoming: The Oregon, Mormon Pioneer and California Routes