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Oregon-California Trails Association is at Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop.

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OCTA is partnering this week with Knowledge Tree Films and Sunrunner Media to create a short documentary about Hansen Wheel and Wagon Shop near Mitchell, South Dakota. We're working with proprietor Doug Hansen to tell the evolutionary story of the wagons and stagecoaches popularly used in the 19th century American West. A special thank you to the South Dakota Humanities Council for providing a grant to cover production costs. #OregonTrail #CaliforniaTrail #trails #OCTA #SouthDakota #SouthDakotaHumanitiesCouncil #Mitchell #KnowledgeTree #SunrunnerMedia ... See MoreSee Less

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E-News for Friday, October 15, 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/indepmo/e-news-for-monday-july-5082578 ... See MoreSee Less

E-News for Friday, October 15, 2021

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OCTA HQ received this request last week. Please follow up by tomorrow (Saturday, October 15) if you would like to send a short video about your thoughts on Will Bagely's impact on western history. Dea...

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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For the months of October and November, on Frontier Fridays we'll highlight the quotes displayed on the stone walls lining the outdoor plaza of the California Trail Interpretive Center.“Today we are to leave this place and home and friends and start upon a long journey, even to the land of gold. ‘Tis hard to say the last goodbye even though we know, or at least think, ‘tis for the better.” – Delia Thompson Brown 1860Delia Thompson Brown left Huntley, Illinois (near Chicago) on May 7, 1860 with her husband and several children to go to California. Upon their arrival in Salt Lake City on July 17, they chose to follow the Central Overland Trail from there to Carson City, Nevada. The Central Overland Trail was surveyed by James H. Simpson for the army but was developed into a route which would be used by emigrants, stagecoaches, the Pony Express, and the Overland Telegraph Company.Delia wrote, while still in Illinois, "Today we are to leave this place and home and friends and start upon a long journey, even to the land of gold. ‘Tis hard to say the last goodbye even though we know, or at least think, ‘tis for the better.” A transcript of her diary is held in the collections of the Nevada Historical Society and portions of it from Salt Lake City onwards were published in West from Salt Lake: Diaries from the Central Overland Trail, edited by Jesse Peterson. Delia's writing focuses most on commentary from daily life along the trail, with less particulars about mileage and landmarks. ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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"...think of it: men, women, and children, forsaking their homes, bidding farewell to all the endearments of society, setting out on a journey of over 2,000 miles, upon a route where they have to make their own roads... undergoing every diversity of pain from agues, chills, sprains and bruises... exposed to every variety of weather. In sickness they have no physician; in death there is no one to perform the last sad offices." -Illinois Congressman John WentworthDuring the early years of travel on the Oregon and California Trails, public opinion was split on whether the emigrants were crazy or if they were heros. US Representative from Illinois, John Wentworth thought those risking their lives for a better life were heros. What do you think of these early westerners? #TrailTuesday #MidwestNPS #FindYourPark ... See MoreSee Less

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New Oregon Trail game to try out on Indigenous People's Day. ... See MoreSee Less

A New Spin On A Classic Video Game Gives Native Americans Better Representation

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A new version of the classic '80s video game Oregon Trail tries to represent the lives of Native Americans more accurately — no more braids or bows and arrows. But you can still die of dysentery.

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"Hi! How are you?" OCTA NW Chapter members greeted each other yesterday during their first in-person gathering in over two years. Chapter president Sallie Riehl presided over a social gathering and a board meeting on Saturday October 6 at Borst Park in Centralia, Washington. Other members attended by Zoom, and all enjoyed a presentation by Christopher Chapman, who recounted his recent bicycle trek along the Oregon Trail with humor and joy. Everyone hopes for more safe, in-person meetings and trail activities in the coming year. ... See MoreSee Less

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The North Platte River was extremely important for emigrant travelers. From where it flows into the Missouri along Nebraska's eastern border, upstream past modern-day Casper, WY, wagons deviated from it only when absolutely necessary.But it looked very different back then than it does today. A series of dams built by the eventual Bureau of Reclamation, starting with the Pathfinder Dam in 1909, followed decades of rudimentary irrigation and flood control. Emigrant journals describe the river as much wider and shallower than it is today, and much more temperamental! In this historic photo, it is also clear just how many of the trees which today enjoy the river were nowhere to be seen even into the 20th century. #FindYourPark #EncuentraTuParque #NoPlatteitudes Image-- Historic photo of Scotts Bluff looking south from across the North Platte River. NPS Image. ... See MoreSee Less

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Become a Junior Ranger for National Historic Trails! Learn about the National Historic Trails and earn junior ranger badges!These activities can be completed virtually or after visiting a site along a National Historic Trail.Booklets can be submitted either electronically or by mail.And this program is for ALL ages! Check it out:https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/become-a-junior-ranger-for-national-historic-trails.htm(NPS Image/Junior Ranger badges over 9 photos of trail scenes) ... See MoreSee Less

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For the months of October and November, on Frontier Fridays we'll highlight the quotes displayed on the stone walls lining the outdoor plaza of the California Trail Interpretive Center.“It is death to every one of you... to travel a distance so great as that through a trackless desert.” – William Sublette 1842William Lewis Sublette was had four brothers and three sisters. In the story of the California Trail the Sublette name is associated with a cutoff through forty miles of desert in western Wyoming, but that was named after his youngest brother, Solomon. Originally from Kentucky, the Sublette's settled in Missouri and, in 1823, when he was 24 years old, both of William's parents died. After arranging for the care of his younger siblings he answered an ad seeking men to travel west as fur trappers. He joined Jedediah Smith's group and sought beavers in the Rocky Mountains near South Pass (Wyoming). Over the ensuing years Sublette prospered as a trapper and was instrumental in supplying and bartering in the annual Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in the late 20s and early 30s. He was instrumental in establishing the original Fort Laramie (known then as Fort William), but by 1836 he settled into a partnership with Robert Campbell running a store in St. Louis. In 1842 William left that partnership and focused on his farm in the region. He died in 1845 of tuberculosis.William is well-known as one of the early pioneers establishing the route from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. When interest was growing around westward expansion into California, Sublette apparently wrote, “It is death to every one of you... to travel a distance so great as that through a trackless desert.” I, unfortunately, was unable to locate the origin of this statement. It is likely found in some of the Sublette papers held in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society. If any readers of this post can provide me with its original source, I would greatly appreciate it! ... See MoreSee Less

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E-News for Thursday, October 7, 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/indepmo/e-news-for-monday-july-5079194 ... See MoreSee Less

E-News for Thursday, October 7, 2021

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Will Bagley — a historian who wrote clear-eyed and detailed accounts of Utah’s past, particularly in a comprehensive and controversial book about the Mountain Meadows Massacre — has died.

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