Journals, Diaries and Articles
These articles were generously shared by Dr. Jim Tompkins (1947-1917), who worked closely with the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Oregon City, Oregon.
These articles may be downloaded for personal reading convenience or to be used in the classroom. For all other uses you must first obtain permission. Call: 816-252-2276
- Applegate Trail
- The Oregon Trail Generation
- Origins of the Oregon Trail
- Where did the Oregon Trail Go?
- Oregon Trail Mileposts
- Trading Post Forts
- First Emigrants on the Oregon Trail
- Outfitting for the Trail
- Independence, Missouri
- Freighters, Stagecoaches and Lone Riders
- Life and Death on the Oregon Trail
- Disrupting the Natives
- The Dalles, Oregon
- Final Leg of the Oregon Trail
- Religious Freedom on the Trail
- Gold! Gold from the American River!
- Iron Horses Over the Ruts
- Oregon Trail Diaries
- Oregon City, Oregon
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