offering settlers the right to claim 160 acres of federal land at a fixed price of $1.25 per acre. This is about $45 in today’s money so the Oregon Trail game’s premise of dogmatically heading ...

It’s looked this way since Oregon Trail settlers realized the region was a bovine paradise-in-the-making. Thanks to a slow-growing climate, rich alluvial soil and annual rainfall of more than 90 ...

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They traveled along the Platte River, creating a new route on its north bank rather than risk encounters with other settlers on the Oregon Trail. The first half of the journey was along the plains ...