Although today it is nearly universally forgotten, a segment/connection of the Oregon Trail ran through Lancaster County and ...

Over 175 years ago, adventurers who wanted to travel west began making their way across the Oregon Trail. According to NebraskaStudies.org, approximately one whole month of their four-month trip was ...

You can follow the real Oregon Trail through western Nebraska — and you won’t ... I still recall trying to survive the Minnesota-made “Oregon Trail” computer game in the 1970s by quickly ...

The Oregon Trail enters Nebraska’s southern border with Kansas just west of the small town of Odell. The emigrants then continued northwest to the Platte, a wide, shallow, meandering river that ...

Preservation groups are discussing how to protect a portion of the Oregon-California Trail in Nebraska during construction of an electrical transmission line.

Renamed the Oregon Trail in the 1840s, the route spanned some 2,100 miles from jumping-off towns such as St. Joseph and Independence, ... Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.

Rachel Pattison grave. Rachel Pattison, who died of cholera on the Oregon Trail in 1849, occupies the oldest and most prominent grave at Ash Hollow Cemetery near Lewellen, Nebraska.

During the mid-1800s, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska were the American frontier, ... The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. By Rinker Buck. Simon & Schuster. 4 stars out of four.

Rendezvous on the Oregon Trail” Brings Innovation, History, and Hospitality to Gering, NE Gering, Nebraska – July 9, 2025 — The Nebraska Brand Committee, as a member of ILIA, is proud to host the ...

In the early to mid-1800s the Oregon Trail, used by settlers on ... did not play last Saturday. So their first game since a 32-31 loss to No. 1 Oregon will be Saturday against Nebraska (5-2, 2 ...

No state is more closely associated with our country’s early westward migration than Nebraska, home to some of the landmarks most frequently noted in emigrant diaries. Jail Rock, Courthouse Rock ...