History and stories of Nebraska . uth of the Kansasriver up the valley of the Little Blue and up the south side ofthe Platte and North Platte was followed by others, and thusbecame the historic trail. Their famous cow, and the oldhorse which seventeen years before carried the burdens forthe Astorians are entitled to a high place among the pioneersof the West. In 1832, Captain Bonneville, whose story is told by Wash-ington Irving, followed over Sublettes trail from the Mis-souri River to the mountains. In the same year Nathaniel J. Wyeth following thesame trail pushedthrough the South Passin th
History and stories of Nebraska . uth of the Kansasriver up the valley of the Little Blue and up the south side ofthe Platte and North Platte was followed by others, and thusbecame the historic trail. Their famous cow, and the oldhorse which seventeen years before carried the burdens forthe Astorians are entitled to a high place among the pioneersof the West. In 1832, Captain Bonneville, whose story is told by Wash-ington Irving, followed over Sublettes trail from the Mis-souri River to the mountains. In the same year Nathaniel J. Wyeth following thesame trail pushedthrough the South Passin the mountains andon to Oregon, thus mak-ing an open road fromthe Missouri River tothe Pacific Ocean. Withslight changes, this roadremained the OregonTrail through the years of overland travel. Every spring inMay the long emigrant wagon trains left the Missouri Riverand arrived on the Pacific coast in November. It was a won-derful trip. Every day the train moved fifteen or twentymiles. Every night it camped. Every day there were new. Old Fobt Hall on the Oregon Trail THE OVERLAND TRAILS 87 scenes and events. New friends were found among thetravelers. Children were born on the way. There wereweddings and funerals. It was a great traveling city mov-ing two thousand miles, from the river to the ocean. There are five periods in the story of the Oregon first was the period of finding the way and breaking thetrail and extends from the return of the Astorians in 1813 tothe Wyeth wagons in 1832. The second period was that ofthe early Oregon migration and extends from 1832 to thediscovery of gold in California in 1849. The third periodwas that of the rush for gold and extends from 1849 to this period the Oregon Trail became the greatesttraveled highway in the world, wider and more beaten thana city street and hundreds of thousands passed over it. Thefourth period is that of the decline of the Oregon Trail andextends from 1860 to 1869. The fifth period, from 1869 tothe
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