Four hundred thousand wagon emigrants — and a government voted into being in a field at Champoeg.
Oregon statehood (1859); the transcontinental railroad (1869) ended the wagon era.
A first-hand 19th-century narrative of travel along the emigrant route.
Background to the westward-settlement impulse that filled the trail (broad context).
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel following a wagon train on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s — the canonical Oregon Trail novel.