Oregon 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

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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in Oregon, 1840s

Narcissa Whitman nursing a sick Native American during the Whitmans missionary expedition, 1840s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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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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