Mormon Trail Gallery

Oregon Trail pioneers passing Chimney Rock

Covered wagons passing Chimney Rock, a landmark on the Oregon Trail, Nebraska.
Hand-colored woodcut combined with a photograph of Chimney Rock

© North Wind Picture Archives

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Sunrise on the Oregon Trail

Covered wagons near the North Platte River in Nebraska.
Hand-colored woodcut combined with a photograph of an Oregon Trail landscape

© Nancy Carter/North Wind Picture Archives

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Guide leading a wagon train to the Platte River onf the Oregon Trail.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Frederic Remington

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