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Wagon Train a group of wagons traveling together

In 1843, about 1,000 people traveled west by wagon train. They wanted to find cheap land.They traveled on the Oregon Trail, which started in Missouri and went through the Rocky Mountains to what is now Oregon. The trip was hard, but by the end of the 1850s, thousands of pioneers had settled in Oregon. In 1846, Britain and the United States agreed on a border between the United States and Canada. The land south of this became the Oregon Territory. A religious group, the Mormons, traveled west on the Mormon Trail. In 1847, the Mormons traveled to what is now Utah. They could settle and practice their religion freely there.

Awoman described her journey in the trail in a journal ** "Not a drop of water, nor a spear of grass to be seen, nothing but burren hills, bare and broken rock, sand and dust". **

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 * __Chapter Summary for Fhapter 11 Lesson 4 Trails West __