The Oregon Trail

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In the year of 1830, a noted fur trader named William Sublette led the first wagons along a trail to the Rocky Mountains. For the next few decades, many emigrants to the west traveled this same trail, which came to be called The Oregon Trail. It was called White-Topped Wagon Road by the Native Americans. It was also called The Mormon Trail, The Platte Trail, and The California Trail because people traveled it seeking gold in …

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