A new exhibit at the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History highlights portraits of Oregon’s Black ...

SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...

A tour group from the Oregon California Trail Association annual convention waits on the side of the road after their bus breaks down north of Pendleton, Ore. on July 24, 2024. The Oregon Trail may ...

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — On a clear day, the drive up to Mount Hood rarely disappoints. Before Highway 26, covered wagons made the trip over much more rugged terrain on the last overland section of ...

Between 1840 and 1860, roughly 400,000 people traveled the 2,000-mile path of the Oregon Trail, encountering sickness, death, exhaustion, and other hardships. The road was long and arduous, but for ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center will be the new home of a book of historic pioneer maps thanks to Sen. Ron Wyden. Through a partnership between the Library of Congress and ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

Raoul Walsh’s (“White Heat”) 1930 epic, “The Big Trail,” chronicling the voyage across the Oregon Trail, features a familiar scene to fans of the Western genre. In it, the pioneer and his love ...

HAGERMAN • Gaze across the steep, golden-brown grass and sage hillsides above the Snake River in the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, and it’s a little daunting to think about hiking across the ...