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How Expansive Is Oregon Trail History? with Professor Margaret Huettl

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Those Are the Classic Years of the Organ Trail

i'm obsessed that that was the vernacular of the day wended like whendid that signpost? Like it, you know, nailed into the thing like that. Those are the classic years of the organ trail. They'd come to saint louis and either travel over land or take steam boats down the mississippi, or missouri v river, to am to independence. And that's where most people started, started out. We usually have this idea of the west as like an empty, isolated wilderness. But it was a thriving, mobile, interconnected space that was full of diverse people, dynamic economies. You would get chocolate from a, like, from mexico

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