~Miscellaneous Trail & Migration Sites~
The Overland Trail
American
Migrations Web Site
National Historic
Trails Interpretive Center
The
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Pioneering
in the Upper Midwest, 1820-1910 American Memory Project, LOC
Juliana's
Links
(In the Category Search, select 'Miscellaneous' and then "Westward
Movement")
~ OREGON/CALIFORNIA TRAIL~
Oregon-California
Trails Association
End of
the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
Oregon Trail
Emigrant Summit
Trail (to California)
Opening of
the California Trail
~MORMON TRAIL~
MormonTrail.com: The Pioneer
Experience
MormonTrail.net
History
of the Mormon Trail
Iowa Mormon Trails
~SANTA FE TRAIL~
The
Interactive Santa Fe Trail (SFT) Homepage
Fort Union
and the Santa Fe Trail
~CHISHOLM TRAIL~
Chisholm
Trail Anniversary Site
Chisholm
Trail
~SPANISH TRAIL~
Old Spanish Trail
Association
~RAILROAD~
"The reality of a transcontinental railroad resulted in several
changes in Mormon emigration policy. In the late '60's, missionaries often
recommended to their converts that they remain in their homes until the
completion of the railroad, thus avoiding much of the hardship, sickness
and death that had marked the trail of the covered wagon. By so doing they
would also be able to accumulate more money to bring with them to the new
community, or to assure the passage of the entire family. And in Utah,
men who would otherwise be called to leave their homes to guide the incoming
Saints to Zion, could stay at home to carry on their own work. With this
in mind, the missionaries were frequently given the responsibility of placing
families
in mid-west or eastern communities where they could find homes and employment."
The above excerpt is from "Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume 8," (available
online to Ancestry.com subscribers at: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3239.htm)
RRHistorical
Railroad
Maps from the Library of Congress
Golden
Spike National Historic Site
Railroads
in Kansas
~MAPS~
Westward
Migration in U.S. 1775-1860
Exploration
and Settlement Before 1675
Exploration
and Settlement 1675-1800
Exploration
and Settlement 1800-1820
Exploration
and Settlement 1820-1835
Exploration
and Settlement 1835-1850
Exploration
and Settlement 1850-1890
