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Part I
- Dawn on the Platte River
- Map of the Oregon Trail
- Opening/Views of the Trail
to come
- Landing at Independence & stocking
up
- Who went, and why
- Brief history of the Oregon
Trail
- Setting off from Independence
Courthouse
- Map: to Fort Kearney
- Great Heartland Trails Festival
- Breakfast on the prairie
- Alcove Springs and a springtime
Sunday afternoon
- A prairie thunderstorm
- “Buffaloes were plenty
enough,” wrote one man
- Map of Oregon, Pony Express,
Gold Rush and Mormon Trails
- Ash Hollow & “The
Great American Desert”
- Buffalo chips
- In camp, under the stars
- “Nebraska’s Gibralter” Scotts
Bluff
- Fort Laramie and the Guernsey
Ruts
- Map: Fort Laramie to South
Pass
- “A death and a funeral,
a wedding and a birth”
- Independence Rock and names
carved 150 years ago
- A disappearing river
- Map: Fort Bridger & the
Sublette Cutoff
- South Pass and the 50-mile
desert
- “The high and sacred spots
of earth,” according to the diary of one young lady
Part II
- Pronghorn antelope
- Fort Bridger & Map of the
roads to Salt Lake and California
- Mineral springs & a unique
golf course
- Map: crossing Idaho
- A powwow
- Boat ride to the hidden Blue
Spring
- A wagon train crosses the dangerous
Snake River at the annual Three Island Crossing festival
- Hells Canyon & the beautiful
Wallowa Valley
- Map: Blue Mountains to The
Dalles
- Scars of wagon wheels still
visible at Blue Mountain Crossing
- Map: two routes to the end
of the Trail
- The Barlow Road in the shadow
of Mt. Hood
- Danger on the river rapids
- Survival in the Cascade Mountains
- A meadow blooms
- A steamship ride on the Columbia
River
- “The longest hill”
- The falls of the Columbia Gorge
- Fort Vancouver, and “the
father of Oregon”
- The end of the Trail
- Portland & the City of
Roses
- Remembering the pioneers and “their
last long journey”
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