In this undated photo of an Oregon Trail reenactment, a long line of oxen-drawn wagons stops to rest along a trail. In 1878, a 21-year-old Missouri woman, Sarah Elizabeth Butler, kept a diary of ...

The trail affected many Indigenous tribes. Many were forced to relocate more than once. The Oregon Trail is a piece of history that, in addition to commonly being taught in classrooms, has ...

The Oregon Trail was once the most widely distributed software in US schools. It gripped a generation and changed gaming forever, but debates rage on about the history it depicts. In the autumn of ...