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Information in this article is from & such principal stream of it, as, by its western river valleys (Platte and Snake Wikipedia,creative commons: https:// course & communication with the wa- Rivers) that bookend the route of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail ters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the (and other emigrant Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and/or oth- trails) across the continental divide— The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile er river may offer the most direct & they just had not located the South historic east–west, large-wheeled wagon practicable water communication across Pass or some of the interconnecting route and emigrant trail in the United this continent, for the purposes of valleys later used in the high country. States that connected the Missouri commerce." Although Lewis and William They did show the way for the moun- River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern Clark found a path to the Pacific Ocean, tain men, who within a decade would part of the Oregon Trail spanned part it was not until 1859 that a direct and find a better way across, even if it was of the future state of Kansas, and practicable route, the Mullan Road, con- not to be an easy way. nearly all of what are now the states of nected the to the Colum- Founded by as a Nebraska and . The western bia River. subsidiary of his American Fur Compa- half of the trail spanned most of the The first land route across what is ny (AFC) in 1810, the Pacific Fur Com- future states of and Oregon. now the was mapped by pany (PFC) operated in the Pacific The early Oregon Trail was laid by the Lewis and Clark Expedition between Northwest in the ongoing North Ameri- fur trappers and traders from about 1804 and 1806. Lewis and Clark initially can fur trade. Two movements of PFC 1811 to 1840, and was only passable on believed they had found a practical employees were planned by Astor, one foot or by horseback. By 1836, when overland route to the west coast; how- detachment to be sent to the Columbia the first migrant wagon train was orga- ever, the two passes they found going River by the merchant ship, nized in Independence, Missouri, a wag- through the , Lemhi and the other overland under an expe- on trail had been cleared to , Idaho. Wagon trails were cleared in- creasingly farther west, and eventually reached all the way to the in Oregon, at which point what came to be called the Oregon Trail was complete, even as almost annual im- provements were made in the form of bridges, cutoffs, ferries, and roads, which made the trip faster and safer. From various starting points in , Missouri, or , the routes converged along the lower Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebras- ka Territory and led to rich farmlands Map of the “Old Oregon Trail” route, 1852-1906, by . west of the Rocky Mountains. Pass and Lolo Pass, turned out to be dition led by . Hunt From the early to mid-1830s (and much too difficult for prairie schooner and his party were to find possible sup- particularly through the years 1846–69) wagons to pass through without consid- ply routes and trapping territories for the Oregon Trail and its many off- erable road work. On the return trip in further fur trading posts. Upon arriv- shoots were used by about 400,000 1806, they traveled from the Columbia ing at the river in March 1811, the settlers, farmers, miners, ranchers, and River to the and the Clear- Tonquin crew began construction of business owners and their families. The water River over Lolo pass again. They what became . The ship eastern half of the trail was also used then traveled overland up the Blackfoot left supplies and men to continue work by travelers on the River and crossed the Continental Di- on the station and ventured north up (from 1843), Mormon Trail (from 1847), vide at Lewis and Clark Pass and on to the coast to Clayoquot Sound for a and Bozeman Trail (from 1863), before the head of the Missouri River. This trading expedition. While anchored turning off to their separate destina- was ultimately a shorter and faster there, insulted an el- tions. Use of the trail declined as the route than the one they followed west. der Tla-o-qui-aht who was previously first transcontinental railroad was com- This route had the disadvantages of elected by the natives to negotiate a pleted in 1869, making the trip west being much too rough for wagons and mutually satisfactory price for animal substantially faster, cheaper, and saf- controlled by the Blackfoot Indians. pelts. Soon after, the vessel was at- er. Today, modern highways, such as Even though Lewis and Clark had only tacked and overwhelmed by the indige- Interstates 80 and 84, follow parts of traveled a narrow portion of the upper nous Clayoquot killing most of the crew the same course westward and pass Missouri River drainage and part of the except its Quinault interpreter, who through towns originally established drainage, these were later told the PFC management at Fort along the Oregon Trail. considered the two major rivers drain- Astoria of the destruction. The next Lewis and Clark Expedition ing most of the Rocky Mountains, and day, the ship was blown up by surviving In 1803, President Thomas Jeffer- the expedition confirmed that there crew members. Under Hunt, fearing son issued the following instructions to was no "easy" route through the north- attack by the Niitsitapi, the overland Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ern Rocky Mountains as Jefferson had expedition veered south of Lewis and mission is to explore the Missouri River, hoped. Nonetheless, this famous expe- Clark's route into what is now Wyoming dition had mapped both the eastern and (continued on page 3) ...the Trail Was Eventually Traveled by 400,000 Settlers, Farmers and Miners (continued from page 2) lands appeared to be unattractive for significant American Rendezvous oc- and in the process passed across Union settlement and were illegal for home- curred on the Henry's Fork of the Pass and into , Wyoming. steading until well after 1846—initially it Green River. The trading supplies were From there they went over the Teton was set aside by the U.S. government for brought in by a large party using pack Range via Teton Pass and then down to Indian settlements. The next available trains originating on the Missouri Riv- the Snake River into modern Idaho. land for general settlement, Oregon, er. These pack trains were then used They abandoned their horses at the appeared to be free for the taking and to haul out the fur bales. They normal- Snake River, made dugout canoes, and had fertile lands, disease-free climate ly used the north side of the Platte attempted to use the river for (yellow fever and malaria were prevalent River—the same route used 20 years transport. After a few days' travel in much of the Missouri and Mississippi later by the Mormon Trail. For the they soon discovered that steep can- River drainage then), extensive uncut, next 15 years the American rendez- yons, waterfalls and impassable rapids unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential vous was an annual event moving to made travel by river impossible. Too far seaports, and only a few nominally British different locations, usually somewhere from their horses to retrieve them, settlers. on the Green River in the future state they had to cache most of their goods Fur trappers, often working for fur of Wyoming. Each rendezvous, occur- and walk the rest of the way to the Co- traders, followed nearly all possible ring during the slack summer period, lumbia River where they made new streams looking for in the years allowed the fur traders to trade for boats and traveled to the newly estab- (1812–40) the fur trade was active. Be- and collect the furs from the trappers lished Fort Astoria. The expedition sides discovering and naming many of the and their Indian allies without having demonstrated that much of the route rivers and mountains in the Intermoun- the expense of building or maintaining along the Snake River plain and across tain West and , they a fort or wintering over in the cold to the Columbia was passable by pack often kept diaries of their travels and Rockies. In only a few weeks at a ren- train or with minimal improvements, were available as guides and consultants dezvous a year's worth of trading and even wagons. This knowledge would be when the trail started to become open celebrating would take place as the incorporated into the concatenated trail for general travel. The fur trade busi- traders took their furs and remaining segments as the Oregon Trail took its ness wound down just as the Oregon trail supplies back east for the winter. In early shape. part- traffic seriously began around 1840. 1830, William Sublette brought the ner led a small group of In fall of 1823, and first wagons carrying his trading goods men back east to report to Astor. The Thomas Fitzpatrick led their trapping up the Platte, North Platte, and group planned to retrace the path fol- crew south from the Sweetwater rivers before crossing lowed by the overland expedition back to the Sweetwater River. They were over to a fur trade rendez- up to the east following the Columbia looking for a safe location to spend the vous on the Green River near the fu- and Snake rivers. Fear of an Indian at- winter. Smith reasoned since the Sweet- ture town of Big Piney, Wyo. He had a tack near Union Pass in Wyoming forced water flowed east it must eventually run crew that dug out the gullies and river the group further south where they into the Missouri River. Trying to crossings and cleared the brush where discovered South Pass, a wide and easy transport their extensive fur collection needed. This established that the pass over the Continental Divide. The down the Sweetwater and North Platte eastern part of most of the Oregon party continued east via the Sweetwa- Rivers, they found after a near disas- Trail was passable by wagons. Fur ter River, (where trous canoe crash that the rivers were traders tried to use the Platte River, they spent the winter of 1812–13) and too swift and rough for water passage. the main route of the eastern Oregon Platte River to the Missouri River, final- On July 4, 1824, they cached their furs Trail, for transport but soon gave up in ly arriving in St. Louis in the spring of under a dome of rock they named Inde- frustration as its many channels and 1813. The route they had used appeared pendence Rock and started their long islands combined with its muddy wa- to potentially be a practical wagon trek on foot to the Missouri River. Upon ters were too shallow, crooked and route, requiring minimal improvements, arriving back in a settled area they unpredictable to use for water and Stuart's journals provided a metic- bought pack horses (on credit) and re- transport. The Platte proved to be ulous account of most of the route. Be- trieved their furs. They had rediscov- unnavigable—however the North Platte cause of the and the lack ered the route that Robert Stuart had River Valley—became an easy roadway of U.S. fur trading posts in the Pacific taken in 1813—eleven years before. for wagons, with its nearly flat plain Northwest, most of the route was un- Up to 3,000 mountain men were trap- sloping easily up and heading almost used for more than ten years. Reports pers and explorers, employed by various due west. from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant British and United States fur companies There were several U.S. govern- Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Major Ste- or working as free trappers, who roamed ment-sponsored explorers who ex- phen Long described the as the North American Rocky Mountains plored part of the Oregon Trail and "unfit for human habitation" and as from about 1810 to the early 1840s. wrote extensively about their explora- "The Great American Desert". These They usually traveled in small groups for tions. Captain Benjamin Bonneville on descriptions were mainly based on the mutual support and protection and did his expedition of 1832 to 1834 ex- relative lack of timber and surface wa- their trapping in the fall when the fur plored much of the Oregon trail and ter. The images of sandy wastelands became prime. They primarily trapped brought wagons up the Platte-North conjured by terms like "desert" were beaver and sold the skins, which could Platte-Sweetwater route across South tempered by the many reports of vast bring up to $4 each at a time when a Pass to the Green River in Wyoming. herds of millions of plains bison that man's wage was often $1 per day. But He explored most of Idaho and the somehow managed to live in this some trappers were more interested in Oregon Trail to the Columbia. "desert". In the 1840s, the Great Plains exploring the West. In 1825, the first (continued on page 4) Missouri State Archives Discovers 13 Pages From the 1880 U.S. Census for Perry County Jefferson City, Mo. — Missouri chives, provide opportunities to improve schedules from 1850, 1860, 1870 and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft re- accessibility of public records which 1880—they will be added to this site cently announced the discovery of 13 benefits both researchers and family this year. The pages will also eventually pages from the 1880 U.S. Census Popu- genealogists.” be available on the Missouri Historical lation Schedule. Identified by the staff Visit www.sos.mo.gov/records/ Society website. For more information of the Missouri State Archives, the archives/census/pages/federal to view about the found census pages or ques- pages record the households of the the newly identified records. Although tions about the digitization project, 99th Enumeration District in Perry the other U.S. Census records imaged contact the reference staff of the County, including the name, age, marital through the collaborative project are Missouri State Archives at ar- status, occupation, level of education not yet available online—including mor- [email protected] or (573) 751-3280. and more for 633 individuals then re- tality, agricultural and manufacturing siding in the county’s Union Township. “Discoveries like this are extremely The Oregon Trail Became the Way West From the Missouri rare,” Ashcroft said, “and we are thrilled to now provide access to these River to the Willamette Valley—2,000 Miles Across the Plains records previously unavailable to gene- (continued from page 3) decision by his mission backers to alogists, historians and archivists alike.” On May 1, 1839, a group of 18 men abandon several of the Oregon mis- The 1880 U.S. Census was released to from Peoria, Illinois, set out with the sions. He joined the wagon train at the the public intention of colonizing the Oregon Platte River for the return trip. When in the country on behalf of the United States the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by 1950s and of America. The men of the Peoria Par- agents from the Hudson's Bay Company research- ty were among the first pioneers to that they should abandon their wagons ers have traverse most of the Oregon Trail. The there and use pack animals the rest of looked for men called themselves the Oregon Dra- the way, Whitman disagreed and volun- these miss- goons. They carried a large flag embla- teered to lead the wagons to Oregon. ing pages zoned with their motto "Oregon Or He believed the wagon trains were ever since. The Grave". Although the group split up large enough that they could build Adding to near Bent's Fort on the South Platte, whatever road improvements they the signifi- nine of their members eventually did needed to make the trip. The biggest

cance of reach Oregon. In September 1840, obstacle they faced was in the Blue the find, a Robert Newell, Joseph L. Meek, and Mountains of Oregon where they had 1921 fire their families reached Fort Walla Wal- to cut and clear a trail through heavy destroyed la with three wagons that they had timber. The wagons were stopped at most of the driven from Fort Hall. Their wagons The Dalles, Oregon, by the lack of a 1890 census, meaning that before this were the first to reach the Columbia road around Mount Hood. The wagons discovery, there was a 30-year gap River over land, and they opened the had to be disassembled and floated where the Perry County households final leg of the Oregon Trail to wagon listed on the missing pages were not traffic. documented on an available population In 1841, the Bartleson-Bidwell Par- schedule. ty was the first emigrant group credit- In 2015, the Missouri State Ar- ed with using the Oregon Trail to emi- chives began a collaborative project grate west. The group set out for Cali- with the Missouri Historical Society to fornia, but about half the party left digitize and make publicly accessible all the original group at Soda Springs, Missouri’s non-population schedules. Idaho, and proceeded to the Willa- Through this project, Archives staff mette Valley in Oregon, leaving their identified the population schedule pag- wagons at Fort Hall. On May 16, 1842, es mixed in with those from the state’s the second organized wagon train set 1880 agricultural schedule. It is out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with thought that the U.S. Census Bureau more than 100 pioneers. The party was A wagon converted to a raft for the last misfiled these population pages before led by . The group broke stage of emigration. binding them in the 1880s, decades be- up after passing Fort Hall with most of fore they were transferred to the Mis- the single men hurrying ahead and the down the treacherous Columbia River souri Historical Society. families following later. In what was and the animals herded over the rough “As we continue to develop our digi- dubbed "The Great Migration of 1843" Lolo trail to get by Mt. Hood. Nearly all tal collections there are always oppor- or the "Wagon Train of 1843," an esti- of the settlers in the 1843 wagon tunities to become more familiar with mated 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for trains arrived in the Willamette Valley the contents of each record. And that Oregon. They were led initially by John by early October. A passable wagon sometimes leads to exciting discoveries Gantt, a former U.S. Army Captain and trail now existed from the Missouri such as this one,” said Christopher Gor- fur trader who was contracted to guide River to The Dalles. In 1846, the Bar- don, director of library and collections the train to Fort Hall for $1 per per- low Road was completed around Mount for the Missouri Historical Society. son. The winter before, Marcus Whit- Hood, providing a rough but com- “Partnerships, such as our collabo- man had made a brutal mid-winter trip pletely passable wagon trail from the ration with the Missouri State Ar- from Oregon to St. Louis to appeal a Missouri River to the Willamette Valley—about 2,000 miles. Genealogy News You Can Use... CGHS Member Provides Information on a Genealogy Web Blogger Randy Majors Has Developed a System for Display- Site That Could be Used to Search German Ancestors ing County Lines for a Number of This article was submitted by Tom Turse, any actual new research, although he did Countries on Google Maps CGHS member, who discovered this German review some of my previous research and Genealogy Website. He provided this infor- some related research done by a profes- This article is from Dick Eastman’s Online mation and his example using the site in or- sional genealogist in Salt Lake City. Genealogy Newsletter of 5 Sep 2018. der to benefit other members. In conclusion, he urged me to contin- Google Maps doesn’t show county The site address is www.compgen.de ue to try to identify John Hoffman in boundaries, so Randy Majors (blogger which stands for Computer Genealogy – New York. When John Hoffman was who writes about Google and genealo- Deutschland (Germany), but the web identified with some additional identifi- gy) created a tool to display them. See site is actually titled “Association for cation data, then he would be happy to county lines anywhere in the United Computer Genealogy eV” ( I don't know assist with any German research. I knew States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Aus- what the eV stands for.) You must ac- this all along but we had been given a list tralia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico cess the site using Google Chrome in of ten Johann Hoffmans in Wurttemburg and Switzerland. Simply enter a place order for the site, which is in Ger- Germany from the German census rec- name and then click “GO.” The normal man, to be automatically translated ords from a recent visit to Salt Lake Google Map commands of Plus (+) and from German to English. Once in this City—none of these John Hoffmans Minus(-) can be used to zoom in and site you can familiarize yourself with came from the town of Dorzbach, Ger- out on the displayed map—simple, easy, the site by clicking on all links (23 over- many. I assume that he reviewed the and effective. You can access County head links) and many more on the left- ten census records because he also knew Lines on Google Maps at hand border. On the right-hand border that none of them were from Dorzbach. https://www.randymajors.com/p/count they list their monthly publications So we continue with what we have to do ygmap.html. which are all in German which will also in Manhattan, NYC, NY. Because we hit a Detailed instructions may be found at: be translated to English. On this site I brick wall in Manhattan, I tried to do https://www.randymajors.com/2018/0 discovered a German genealogical socie- what no genealogist should do and that 8/you-cant-see-us-county-boundaries- ty and a professional German genealo- was try to jump across the proverbial in.html gist who had guided me concerning my rd Pond. We may never find our Johann Also, he has developed a system for search for my wife's 3 great grandfa- Hoffman—a fact we may have to accept. finding historical county boundaries on ther for whom we had hit a brick wall on In any event, perhaps this German Google Maps; see Historical U.S. Coun- our Manhattan, NY research. His name website can be useful to others who may ty Boundary Maps at https:// was John (Johann) Hoffman, a very be searching German relatives. www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html common German name. This genealogist corresponded with me via four e-mails. Although I requested his research fee Be Aware of Confusion and Don’t Make Assumptions About schedule, he did not provide it and has “Jr.” and “Sr.” Suffix Designations for Names of Kin yet to do so. I presume he did not do Ted Bainbridge, Ph.D., genealogical re- 1844 in Pennsylvania. Her parents were searcher, teacher, speaker, writer, and con- News About Ellis Island Records Elisha Graham and Lydia. I know of 99 tributor to the Cheyenne Genealogy Jour- Graham women among her relatives, nal, provided this article. This information is from Betty Jo and but only one is a Margaret who was Darwin from a letter they received from the When modern Americans see “Jr.” born before 1844. She was this Mar- Ellis Island Foundation, which included this after a name, it is often assumed that garet’s father’s first-cousin’s wife. story: "One night in 1897, a few minutes the boy was named after his father. Clarence Bainbridge Sr. had a son after midnight, the night watchman at This is not always true. Some examples: Clarence Bainbridge Jr., who had a son Ellis Island noticed signs of trouble: a Joseph Mayo Jr. was born in Virginia in Clarence Bainbridge III. After Senior flame flickering through an office win- 1834. His father was Robert Mayo, his died, Junior called himself Senior be- dow. Within hours, Ellis Island's first grandfather was Joseph Mayo Jr., and cause he was the oldest living, and immigration center burned, along with his great-grandfather was Joseph Mayo called his son Junior. But The Third years of immigrant records." Sr. The youngest Joseph was named always referred to himself as The From the letter’s information, it ap- after his grandfather; not his father. pears that the Foundation has used cus- Third. toms records for those years to recreate John Hammond Fuqua II’s father If a Civil War unit had two men the lost Ellis Island records. The infor- was John Walton Fuqua Sr. and his with the same name and their ages mation says that nearly 14 million new grandfather was John Hammond Fuqua were noticeably different, one was passenger records--covering 1820 to 1891 I. This is another boy named after his called Junior and the other was called --were added this year to the Ellis Island grandfather. The boy had a brother Senior even though they were not re- immigration history database at http:// John Walton Fuqua Jr. who was named lated. Some of these relationships www.LibertyEllisFoundation.org./ after their father. The home had two were made clear by the people in- Within the added records they found sons named John—one of them was volved, some were learned during John Nordstrom immigrating from Swe- “Jr.” and the other was “II”. pointed conversations, and some were den at age 16 in 1887 to found his famous Elizabeth Rupert Jr. was born about discovered only after extensive re- stores; Walt Disney's great grandfather 1827 in Pennsylvania. Her mother was search...so when you encounter Sr., coming from Ireland in 1834; and Barack Elizabeth Kline who married John Ru- Jr., III, and so on among your rela- Obama's great great great grandfather pert. This Jr was a girl named after tives, be careful to learn the true re- coming in 1850 from Ireland to New York. her mother. The database now has 65 million immi- lationships instead of making assump- grant records. Margaret Graham Jr. was born in tions. Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society

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