Musician Dwight Frizzell, left, and printmaker Miguel Rivera discuss their different approaches to a map of the Oregon Trail at the Kansas City Art Institute where they both teach. When pioneers ...

A longtime journalist, Buck and his brother Nick traveled the 2,100-mile expanse of the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. Buck’s tale begins when he was sent out to do a story on the Kansas Flint ...

Wagon trains headed for Oregon departed from the square along the existing Santa Fe Trail that led southwest out of present-day Kansas City. Following this route, we stopped at Minor Park, a 27 ...

Renamed the Oregon Trail in the 1840s, the route spanned some 2,100 miles from jumping-off towns such as St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, following the ...

He learned the skill to cross the Oregon Trail -- in a covered wagon, just like 19th-century pioneers did. Spanning six states, the historic trail shaped the West, united America's two coasts and ...

I had a wagon shop out in Kansas that I already knew about. ... Around 400,000 people crossed the Oregon Trail in the 19th century, heading west to exploit all the soil, ...

The Cherokee Trail is back on the map after years of being forgotten, thanks to the research of historians from southern Kansas. Linda Andersen, a historian from Galva, first heard of the trail in ...

It’s from the Oregon Trail—a beloved computer game that, on this particular Saturday, I was playing again. Only this time it wasn’t on the computer, it was in real life.

Independence, Missouri, was the pioneers’ jumping-off point in the early years of the Oregon Trail. Some came overland, but many arrived via steamboat to begin the trip west. In the 1840s ...