Salt Lake City, Utah84145 Filed Under: Cultural
As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries and others. Beginning in 1841 and continuing for more than ... Save as Goal|Send to Friend
Salt Lake City, Utah84145 Filed Under: Cultural
Led by Brigham Young, roughly 70,000 Mormons traveled along the Mormon Pioneer Trail from 1846 to 1869 in order to escape religious persecution. The general route is from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lak ... Save as Goal|Send to Friend
Salt Lake City, Utah84145 Filed Under: Cultural
The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840's and 1850's, the greatest mass migration in American history. To ... Save as Goal|Send to Friend
Salt Lake City, Utah84145 Filed Under: Cultural
The Pony Express National Historic Trail was used by young men on fast paced horses to carry the nation's mail across the country, from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, in the unprecede ... Save as Goal|Send to Friend