Video Gallery The Oregon-California Trails Association is committed to protecting our nation’s historic trail legacy. There is much of it still to protect. We’re OCTA. Join the Coalition—and us. Help stop the B2H. The Merrill J. Mattes Library of The Oregon-California Trails Association Hiram Young – From Slave to Wealthy Wagon Maker William Gilpin: Lawyer, Geopolitician, and Colorado Governor The Butterfield Overland Mail: the First 60 Miles through Missouri Pitcher Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. One of about 400 Hundred Pioneer Cemeteries in Jackson County, MO. This Day in History, May 12: John Bidwell, Sapling Grove, and the First Wagon Train to California. Camp Ground Cemetery & The Cholera Epidemic of 1849 Early 1800’s history regarding the beginning of the pioneer trails in Missouri and Kansas along the Westport Route and along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. Video is compliments of the Olathe Historical Society. Learn more at their website: http://www.olathehistoricalsociety.org/about-us