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Wagon train , caravan of wagons organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the West during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Composed of up to Conestoga wagon s q.

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Wagon-train transportation moved westward with the advancing frontier. It was, however, in transit westward over the Oregon-California Trail that the wagon trains attained their most highly organized and institutionalized character. Meeting in early spring at a rendezvous town, perhaps near the Missouri River , the groups would form companies, elect officers, employ guides, and collect essential supplies while awaiting favourable weather , usually in May.

Those riding in the wagons were directed and protected by a few on horseback. Once organized and on their way, wagon-train companies tended to follow a fairly fixed daily routine, from 4 am rising, to 7 am leaving, 4 pm encampment, cooking and tending to chores while the animals grazed, and simple recreation before early retirement.

The companies had to be prepared for such challenges as crossing rivers and mountains and meeting hostile Indians. Wagon-train migrations are more widely known and written about than wagon freighting, which also played an essential role in an expanding America. Teamsters, best known as bullwhackers or muleskinners, conducted commercial operations on a more or less fixed two-way schedule until replaced by the railroad and the truck.

The trail, blazed by Peter Lassen while leading a wagon train of pioneers to California in , was used by thousands of goldseekers and emigrants for nearly a decade. Cherokee Trail, a. Mormon Trail, a. To alleviate increased persecution that erupted in Nauvoo during the summer of , Brigham Young announced in September that Latter-day Saints would leave Nauvoo and vicinity in the spring of This initiated one of the largest organized movements of a religious group in world history. More than 10, people who lived in or near Nauvoo migrated more than 1, miles to the Great Salt Lake Valley.

On 4 February , the first wagons left Nauvoo.

Approximately 70, Mormons traveled along the Mormon Pioneer Trail from to After leaving Iowa, the Latter-day Saints generally traveled along the north side of the Platte River. There they faced fewer chances for unpleasant encounters with westbound emigrants from the states of Missouri or Illinois, all potentially former detractors and enemies. The Latter-day Saints believed that the north side of the river was healthier than the south side.

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Along the way, feed for stock sometimes became scarce. They would switch to the other side if feed was in short supply.


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Oregon Trail, a. Unofficially, the starting point could be Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Saint Louis, or possibly other places. The gold strike in California in brought many Argonauts over the eastern part of the trail, then they turned southwest after passing Fort Hall.

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Lander for the Department of the Interior. It is the only stretch of the Oregon Trail system to ever be subsidized and constructed by the federal government. More than 13, emigrants traveled it in , its first year of use. It required a mile waterless drive across a barren sagebrush desert between the Big Sandy and Green Rivers, followed by the necessity to climb several mountainous ridges west of the Green.

Most of the normal emigrants avoided it. The Forty-Niners loved it. It saved 70 miles, or about three days travel time. Well marked, much public land. Hudspeth and John J.

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Myers were the two individuals who lead the first wagons on a new branch of the California Trail, which left the main trail near Soda Springs and rejoined the main trail near Malta, Idaho. When they left the main trail west of Soda Springs, they thought they would save considerable miles and arrive at the headwaters of the Humboldt. Description: Comments on his life teaching and supervising industrial education in the Islands.

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Bluxome family papers, Description: Miscellaneous papers, including citizenship papers for Isaac Bluxome, Sr. Morris H. Beck letters to his parents, May - June. Description: Description of journey from Iowa to California, with record of route and experiences with Indians, and mention of other members of the company.

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Notes by Elias Beck at the end of two letters. Irving W. Wood Papers, Description: Re the establishment of camps for migratory laborers, mainly in the Marysville area. Include letters and memoranda from Harry Drobish, Paul S. Taylor, Walter Packard and others. Also included: some material re Japanese and Mexican laborers in the Imperial Valley Writings by students at the Poston War Relocation Center, Describe experiences during evacuation from California and relocation in Poston.

Included also is a brief history of Poston, dated October 24, Bill Deemer correspondence, Description: Mainly from Bay Area poets. Paul Lacombe papers, Description: Letters and documents related to his bibliography of the works of Leopold Delisle. Include letters from Edouard J. Dolbet, Gustave Macon, Henri A. Omont, Edouard Pelay, Georges Description: Interviews with various university officials and friends of Robert Gordon Sproul.