Covered wagons may be indelibly associated with America's westward expansion, but our ancestors began using them long before ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — On a clear day, the drive up to Mount Hood rarely disappoints. Before Highway 26, covered wagons made the trip over much more rugged terrain on the last overland section of ...

To Rinker Buck, "journey is all" when he and his brother Nick leap onto the seat of a covered wagon to take on a contemporary "crazyass" crossing of the Oregon Trail. But for readers, "The Oregon ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Length of "Pussy Willow" (Mallinson ...

The Oregon Trail was used by Americans who wanted to travel west to the “New Country.” Besides some super early adopters, people really started taking it in the 1840s and continued to use it through ...