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Oregon-California Trails Association

2 days ago

It's Giving Tuesday! - Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - https://mailchi.mp/indepmo/e-news-for-monday-july-13758801 ... See MoreSee Less

It's Giving Tuesday! - Tuesday, November 29, 2022

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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Today is #GivingTuesday. OCTA is in the midst of its Year End Appeal and in the very beginning of its Journey of a Lifetime multiyear fundraising campaign. Click through to read President John Briggs' appeal for funding to sustain and expand OCTA's myriad programs. Thank you for supporting the Oregon-California Trails Association! ... See MoreSee Less

Journey of a Lifetime Begins Now!

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Help OCTA secure its future by making a donation today! This year , 2022 was one in which we did see a return to a more normal pattern of Trail events and activities . Thanks to our members w e enjoye...

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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It is Tuesday on the trails. Would you carry this clock in your wagon thousands of miles to Oregon, just to keep time in your new home? Someone did in 1848!https://museumcollection.ohs.org/argus/ohs/… ... See MoreSee Less

Oregon Historical Society Museum Collection

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The Oregon Historical Society museum collection safeguards thousands of objects related to the history of the region. The museum collection includes three-dimensional objects such as personal items, a...

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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On this day in 1864, white Colorado settlers committed one of the most horrific acts in American history. Over the course of eight hours, the troops killed around 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, composed mostly of women, children, and the elderly. During the afternoon and following day, the soldiers wandered over the field committing atrocities on the dead before departing the scene. Captain Silas Soule, Company D, 1st Colorado Cavalry, refused to let his company participate in the Sand Creek Massacre. He was raised in an abolitionist family and ordered his troops not to participate in the attack. He testified publicly about the massacre and was later murdered for testifying against his superior officers for war crimes. His letters about the massacre make up some of the interpretation at the National Historic Site. Earlier in life, the native of Bath, Maine, had moved to Kansas with the Free Soiler Movement and joined an abolitionist militia called the Immortal Ten, which fought to free slaves in Bleeding Kansas. John Brown was a family friend, and when Brown was captured at Harper's Ferry, Soule tried to break him out. Brown refused, preferring to become a martyr to the cause of abolition. Soule went on to join the Union Army and fought at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. He was murdered on April 23, 1865, just weeks before the end of American Civil War.In contemporary Colorado, the Colonel in charge of the massacre (John Chivington) has a town named after him and the governor (Evans) has a mountain named for him. Silas Soule’s memory is not preserved with any officially named entities. Even Kit Carson spoke against Chivington:“Jis to think of that dog Chivington and his dirty hounds, up thar at Sand Creek. His men shot down squaws, and blew the brains out of little innocent children. You call sich soldiers Christians, do ye? And Indians savages? What der yer ‘spose our Heavenly Father, who made both them and us, thinks of these things? I tell you what, I don’t like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I’ve fought ’em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.”"Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians!....I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians." - Col. John Milton Chivington, U.S. ArmyLast August, OCTA toured the site of the Battle of Red Buttes near Casper, Wyoming as part of its annual convention there. This is where a group of American Indians exacted revenge upon a regiment of U.S. soldiers stationed at Ft. Caspar in 1865. These massacres and battles would continue for another 25 years, culminating with the Pine Ridge Massacre in South Dakota in 1890. During the convention, the Bureau of Land Management also debuted a new documentary about the Battle of Red Buttes. You can view it in its entirety at https://youtu.be/98Ss5D8ZOe8. ... See MoreSee Less

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For anyone who relies on corner crossing to get to public lands on the checkerboard when on historic trails, this legal case in Wyoming is worth watching. Click through for the full story, but here's a brief excerpt:"In 2020, Bradly Cape, a bow hunter from Missouri, drove to Wyoming to hunt with three companions. A meticulous planner, he had spent months poring over maps, perusing message boards and studying Wyoming law. Ultimately he settled on Elk Mountain."Using OnX, Mr. Cape identified a route that began on a county road and climbed up a rattlesnake-infested hillside. Within minutes of hiking, he had found the corner, which the Eshelman ranch had carefully obstructed with two “No Trespassing” signs positioned inches apart to prevent corner-crossing."The hunters proceeded toward the elk anyway and “killed some pretty big bulls,” said Eddie Garren, Mr. Cape’s son-in-law. Along the way, however, they were confronted by a ranch manager who warned that they were trespassing."Undeterred, Mr. Cape and his companions returned the next hunting season. This time, to avoid contact with ranch property, they carried a ladder that was exactly six inches taller than the “No Trespassing” signs. (Mr. Cape, who owns a fencing company, fashioned the ladder out of fence piping.) After the ladder was unfolded, the four heavily armed, camouflage-wearing men performed what might have seemed like a TikTok stunt or an arcane ritual, placing a ladder over a pair of five-foot-tall signs — the only obstacles around for miles — and climbing over it one by one as if they were avoiding an invisible electric fence."Click through to read the entire story. And always be mindful to respect private property by not trespassing. ... See MoreSee Less

It’s Public Land. But the Public Can’t Reach It.

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A navigation app that illuminates public land within privately held property has supercharged the question of who gets to go where.

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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OCTA E-News for Friday, November 25, 2022 - https://mailchi.mp/indepmo/e-news-for-monday-july-13757969 ... See MoreSee Less

OCTA E-News for Friday, November 25, 2022

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Did you know that 90% of the viewers who watch OCTA YouTube are not subscribers? Subscribing is free, it does not sign you up for any other services, and it promotes OCTA awareness. Please subscri...

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Leawood, Kansas, native Charlie Janssen just completed a lifelong goal: hiking all 7,800-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail and Pacific Crest Trail in a calendar year.“I feel like doing something of that extreme length is really foreign to Midwesterners.” ... See MoreSee Less

A Kansas City native conquered the country's longest trails and earned hiking's 'Triple Crown'

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Leawood, Kansas, native Charlie Janssen has qualified for hiking’s 'Triple Crown' award, which recognizes hikers who have completed three of the country’s longest trails. Janssen joins an elite gr...

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LA Film Awards has informed us that our documentary "Wagon Master: Hansen's Hand-Crafted History" is now a semi-finalist in their film festival. (Earlier this week, we reported that it had made the quarter-finals, but we survived the cut from 100 to 60 movies.) If you haven't seen it yet, download it here:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wagonmaster ... See MoreSee Less

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It's Friday - here is your Donner/Reed Party read.Fridays with the Donner PartyThis was an important week in the historical record of the Donner Party in that 41-year-old Patrick Breen began keeping a diary to document their days in the winter camp. His handwritten diary can be viewed at https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0004b217j/?brand=oac4. For November 21 he wrote, “fine morning wind N.W. 22 or our company are about Starting across the mountain this morning.” William Graves, publishing an article in the Russian River Flag (https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RRF18770503.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1) on May 3, 1877 wrote about this attempt to cross the mountains: “About two weeks after we stopped here, the weather was clear and pretty, the snow nearly all gone in the valley, so father proposed trying to cross on foot; about 20 started with him; when they got to the top they found the snow so deep and soft they could not go on any further and were obliged to turn back.” According to J. Quinn Thornton Mr. Eddy measured the snow at the top of the pass to be twenty-five feet deep.The photo on the left is the 1891 painting On the Way to the Summit by William Gilbert Gaul and was downloaded from http://picturethis.museumca.org/pictures/way-summit-donner-party. It was the inspiration for the first of the three scenes in the Donner Theater at the California Trail Interpretive Center (photo on the right – taken by Trail Center staff). ... See MoreSee Less

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OCTA's documentary "Wagon Master: Hanson's Hand-Crafted History" was recently selected as a quarter-finalist for the LA Film Awards. When you're taking a break from football and turkey today, stream our short 25-minute documentary for friends and family. ... See MoreSee Less

Watch Wagon Master: Hansen's Hand-Crafted History Online | Vimeo On Demand

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This is the story of how Doug Hansen learned to handcraft 19th-century wheeled vehicles, with curiosity and fortitude as his guides. Through his own ingenuity and...

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