Oregon Trail

noun

a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long.

Oregon trail

an early pioneering route across the central US, from Independence, W Missouri, to the Columbia River country of N Oregon: used chiefly between 1804 and 1860. Length: about 3220 km (2000 miles)

Oregon Trail

The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California . The Oregon Trail passed through what is now Missouri , Kansas , Nebraska , Wyoming , and Idaho .

It is well-timbered, and its mouth was a familiar camping place on the Oregon Trail.

The crossing of the Oregon Trail was almost directly south of Lawrence.

The story of the Oregon Trail, he rightly felt, is an American epic which must be preserved.

Ezra Meeker has done a signal service for our country in reblazing the Oregon Trail.

The journey back over the old Oregon Trail by ox team was made during my seventy-seventh year.

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