Discover how the Oregon Trail helped shape American agriculture, connected settlers to fertile western farmland, and influenced U.S. farming ...

“I don’t know about you,” said the cowboy in his booming Wyoming voice. “But when I follow these old trails, I can just see the wagons coming up over the hill.” My wife and I were chatting with this ...

Discover how the 2,170-mile Oregon Trail helped shape American agriculture, westward expansion, and pioneer settlement during the 19th ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - We take you down the Oregon Trail for this week’s trip into the WIBW Video Vault. Back in the summer of 1993, various groups loaded up wagons and set out on a journey to mark the ...

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 ...