In her first stand-alone book, Applegate (the Animorphs series ... richly descriptive verse narrative about a girl on the Oregon Trail. Afraid only of thunderstorms, Hallie embraces the trip ...

Explore the history of the Applegate Trail, the southern branch of the Oregon Trail. Early settlers coming to Oregon crossed vast plains, foreboding mountains, and hot deserts, only to find their ...

Motivated by these hardships, Jesse Applegate, one of these settlers, established the Applegate Trail, a safer route for settlers to take from the Midwest into Oregon. Born in 1811 in Henry County ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — In Southern Oregon, researchers are looking for bits of the old Applegate Trail, which for a few years was an alternative route for white settlers coming to the Willamette ...