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The Oregon Trail
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South Pass the key through the Rockies seems unimpressive as one approaches it by car. Photographs by Brian Blakeley,
A good starting point for the Oregon Trail is the PBS video site. The role of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. and the opening of Oregon is the subject of the Library of Congress, Today in History for February 16 and more on the Whitmans can be found at the National Park Service Whitman Mission National Historic Site's page.
Francis Parkman's classic, The Oregon Trail from the University of Virginia's hypertext project.
This page was last updated
August 21, 2002
Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives.