The first wagon train on the Oregon Trail moved in 1839-40, but, as the name suggests, they went to Oregon.After 1843, wagons using the California Trail usedt he eastern parts of the Oregon Trail to get to the California Trail.
Yes, the Oregon Trail went through Oregon.
Beacuse it went to Oregon. But many trails branched off to other places.
That is the (Jesse) Chisholm Trail, which went between Texas and Kansas.
food and tools
The Oregon Trail led to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.The Oregon Trail was a dirt wagon road that went from St. Louis, Missouri, up the Mississippi along the banks of the the Mississippi River to the Missouri. It went to the North Platt. From there it went through South Pass on through Idaho to the Columbia River and from there, along the banks of the Columbia to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
They went so they could go for new land.
they went five miles an hour
The Oregon Trail went to the Willamette valley, where there was very good farm land. There was no farm land at the ocean!
Indians and pioneers in hopes of a new life
they all went west
They went on the Oregon trail because Oregon Had better places for hunting, trapping, and fishing :)