Explore the Snake River: its map, rich history from Native Americans to pioneers, impressive length, and facts about Hells ...

The distance runner from Arizona is covering an approximately 468-mile route across the southern part of the state in 10 days, following the Wyoming leg of the Oregon Trail.

The Oregon Trail follows the North Platte River into southeastern Wyoming, where it heads northwest along the river’s southern bank. After crossing the river at Casper, the emigrants headed ...

You can follow the real Oregon Trail through western Nebraska — and you won’t die of dysentery. ... with Chimney Rock on one horizon and Wyoming’s Laramie Peak — 100 miles away — on the ...

In 1863, mountain man John Jacobs and partner John M. Bozeman determined to find a better route connecting the Oregon Trail to new gold-strike country in what would later become Montana.

They formed a steady stream, crossing Wyoming as well as Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho and Oregon. From 1843 to 1868 a half million pioneers in covered wagons and other means of ...