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Cheyenne Genealogy Journal Where—How Many Cousins Do You Have?” Larimer Musings by the President Upcoming Events: 17 January 2019 “Cousins, Cousins Every- Cheyenne Genealogy Journal where—How Many Cousins Do You have?” Larimer Musings by the President . County Genealogy Society Monthly Meeting Christmas has come and gone and so, sadly, has my family. We had a wonderful, all-too-short 6:30-8:30 Good Samaritan visit with our two kids, daughter-in-law and three grandkids. Now it’s time to make New Society,508 Trilby Road, Year’s resolutions that I probably won’t keep. You know...the Fort Collins best laid plans of mice and men [& women] often go astray. I resolved to start writing to England for the vital records 22 January 2019 of my ancestors. I have many, many, many English ancestors. Family History Library Then a British genealogy newsletter I subscribe to arrived Webinar: “Tips & Tricks the other day informing me the prices for the certificates for Finding Elusive Rec- are going up significantly in England and Wales very soon. ords on FamilySearch” The prices haven’t gone up since 2010. That’ll teach me to 10:00 a.m. procrastinate. I only have a month to decide which records I really want to send for. Do you think I’ll be able to accom- 29 January 2019 plish such a short-term goal? Sue Seniawski, President Family History Library Webinar: “Research Help & Searching Records on “RootsTech” Offers Discounted Registration Before Jan 25 FamilySearch” 10:00 a.m. FamilySearch International fer attendees a full lineup of with vendors. has announced that registra- inspiring and well-known key- Nobody knows family quite 27 Feb-2 Mar 2019 tion for RootsTech 2019 Salt note speakers; over 300 in- like Emmy award–winning ac- RootsTech Conference Lake City is now open. 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The 2019 sions beginning at 9:30 a.m. er hour classes will feature pricing is available for a conference will be held Febru- The Wednesday general ses- three different presenters in limited time on four-day ary 27–March 2, 2019, at the sion will begin on the main each room who will teach about passes at just $209. Single Salt Palace Convention Center stage at 4:30 p.m., featuring similar topics for 20 minutes -day RootsTech passes are in Salt Lake City, Utah. For Steve Rockwood, CEO of Fami- each. These sessions are de- also available. Both one-day more information, visit Roots- lySearch International, as the signed to allow attendees to and full conference passes Tech.org. keynote speaker. Following learn a new skill, method, or include access to the popu- Last year, the event at- Rockwood’s address will be the application that can be applied lar expo hall and keynote tracted more than 27,000 at- opening event, then the expo to their own family history sessions. Discounted pricing tendees from all 50 U.S. hall will open from 6–8 p.m. to efforts. ends January 25, 2019. states and 47 different coun- allow attendees uninterrupted General keynote sessions tries. RootsTech 2019 will of- time in the expo hall to meet on Thursday, Friday, and Sat- A glimpse back at the past… Creating the Oregon Trail Was Due to Early Efforts by Trappers & Traders... 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 Oregon Trail (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 Missouri River to the Colum- Founded by John Jacob Astor as a Nebraska and Wyoming. 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 Idaho and Oregon. now the United States 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, Tonquin nized in Independence, Missouri, a wag- through the Rocky Mountains, Lemhi and the other overland under an expe- on trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho. Wagon trails were cleared in- creasingly farther west, and eventually reached all the way to the Willamette Valley 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 Iowa, Missouri, or Nebraska Territory, the routes converged along the lower Platte River Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebras- ka Territory and led to rich farmlands Map of the “Old Oregon Trail” route, 1852-1906, by Ezra Meeker. west of the Rocky Mountains. Pass and Lolo Pass, turned out to be dition led by Wilson Price Hunt. 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 Snake River and the Clear- Tonquin crew began construction of business owners and their families. The water River over Lolo pass again. They what became Fort Astoria. 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 California Trail 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, Jonathan Thorn 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.
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