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The Oregon Trail: Super Highway to the Pacific Northwest Frontier
Starting in the 1830s the Oregon trail served as the major route for settlers bound for the Pacific Northwest.
Some key historical questions: What role did the Oregon Trail play in the contest between the United States and Britain to gain control over Pacific Northwest frontier? How did the length and conditions of the trail affect the settlers themselves? How did these conditions limit the numbers and types of people who were able to complete the trip and settle in the Northwest? How can the experiences of individuals and families be used to tell the story of the Oregon Trail? How can the Oregon trail be used to interpret and explain the settlement of the Pacific Northwest?
Be sure to consider other possibilities for historical questions as you analyze and interpret this topic.
Primary Sources:
Secondary Sources:
Women in Pacific Northwest History: An Anthology by Karen J. Blair
Oregon Trail Revisited by J.E. Brown
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by D. Dary
Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River by William Dietrich
The Oregon Trail by the Federal Writers' Project
"Early Wagon Roads in the Inland Empire" by Otis W. Freeman Pacific Northwest Quarterly 45 (1954): 125-130
Empire of the Columbia: A History of the Pacific Northwest by Dorothy Johansen
Story of the Lost Trail of Oregon by Ezra Meeker
Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910 by Donald W. Meinig
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History by Carlos Schwantes
“It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own:” A New History of the American West by Richard White
Some key historical questions: What role did the Oregon Trail play in the contest between the United States and Britain to gain control over Pacific Northwest frontier? How did the length and conditions of the trail affect the settlers themselves? How did these conditions limit the numbers and types of people who were able to complete the trip and settle in the Northwest? How can the experiences of individuals and families be used to tell the story of the Oregon Trail? How can the Oregon trail be used to interpret and explain the settlement of the Pacific Northwest?
Be sure to consider other possibilities for historical questions as you analyze and interpret this topic.
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Secondary Sources:
Women in Pacific Northwest History: An Anthology by Karen J. Blair
Oregon Trail Revisited by J.E. Brown
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by D. Dary
Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River by William Dietrich
The Oregon Trail by the Federal Writers' Project
"Early Wagon Roads in the Inland Empire" by Otis W. Freeman Pacific Northwest Quarterly 45 (1954): 125-130
Empire of the Columbia: A History of the Pacific Northwest by Dorothy Johansen
Story of the Lost Trail of Oregon by Ezra Meeker
Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910 by Donald W. Meinig
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History by Carlos Schwantes
“It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own:” A New History of the American West by Richard White
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