The Oregon Trail

Starting around 1843, over 50,000 settlers loaded wagons with clothing, weapons, ammunition, medical supplies, and as many family belongings as they could fit and began the Westward Expansion

Primary Sources (firsthand accounts)

California as I Saw It
First-Hand accounts of reaching the western destination

"A Journal of Our Travels..."
Personal narrative of one man and his family's travels.

West Web
Links to both primary and secondary sources

Secondary Sources

PBS - History Links
Programs produced by PBS on various topics including life on a wagon, the wagon trains, living on the frontier, etc.

California Gold Rush
Lots of links, images, descriptions of life in the Gold Rush era.

Play The Oregon Trail Game Online

Based on the popular early 90's DOS game

VirtualApple.org/OregonTrailDisk