May 22:

1843 : Great Emigration departs for Oregon

A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of
cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri.
Known as the "Great Emigration," the expedition came two years after
the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to
Oregon.

After leaving Independence, the giant wagon train followed the Sante
Fe Trail for some 40 miles and then turned northwest to the Platte
River, which it followed along its northern route to Fort Laramie,
Wyoming. From there, it traveled on to the Rocky Mountains, which it
passed through by way of the broad, level South Pass that led to the
basin of the Colorado River. The travelers then went southwest to Fort
Bridger, northwest across a divide to Fort Hall on the Snake River,
and on to Fort Boise, where they gained supplies for the difficult
journey over the Blue Mountains and into Oregon. The Great Emigration
finally arrived in October, completing the 2,000-mile journey from
Independence in five months.

In the next year, four more wagon trains made the journey, and in 1845
the number of emigrants who used the Oregon Trail exceeded 3,000.
Travel along the trail gradually declined with the advent of the
railroads, and the route was finally abandoned in the 1870s.

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