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- Westward_Expansion_Trails abstract "In the American Old West, trails were used by immigrants from the eastern United States, between 1830 and 1870. These colonists began to settle various regions of North America west of the Interior Plains, during the overland migrations of the mid-19th century. Settlers following these 'Westward ways' were spurred by various motives, among them including persecuted Mormons seeking freedom of religion. After the end of the Mexican-American War in 1849, there many new enticing American conquests. Legislation like the Donation Land Claim Act and critical events like the California Gold Rush further incited colonists to travel overland west.There were two major wagon networks, one based typically out of Missouri and the other out of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. Three of the Missouri-based routes were collectively known as the Emigrant Trails, the Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails. Historians have estimated at least 500,000 emigrants used these three trails from 1843–1869, and despite growing competition from transcontinental railroads, some use continued into the early twentieth-century. Three of the major southern routes were the Santa Fe Trail, the Southern Emigrant Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail. The trip was arduous, fraught with risks from infectious diseases, dehydration, injury, malnutrition, and harsh weather, with up to one-tenth dying along the way, usually due to disease.These trail networks have become embedded in the folklore of the United States as one of the significant influences that have shaped the content and character of the nation. The remains of many trail ruts can be observed in scattered locations throughout arid parts of the American West. Travelers may loosely follow various routes of the trail network on modern highways through the use of byway signs across the western states.".
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- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageRevisionID "682435283".
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Alta_California.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink American_Old_West.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink American_frontier.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Arid.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Mountains_(Oregon).
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Mountains_(Pacific_Northwest).
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Brigham_Young.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_chip.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Butterfield_Overland_Mail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink California_Gold_Rush.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink California_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:California_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mormon_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:National_Forest_Scenic_Byways.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:National_Historic_Trails_of_the_United_States.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:Oregon_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Category:Trails_and_roads_in_the_American_Old_West.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Chihuahua,_Chihuahua.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Chihuahua_City.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Cholera.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Ciudad_Juárez.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Colorado_Desert.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Continental_divide.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Council_Bluffs,_Iowa.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Covered_wagon.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Cow_dung.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Dehydration.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Donation_Land_Claim_Act.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Donner_Party.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink El_Camino_Real_(California).
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink El_Camino_Real_de_Tierra_Adentro.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink El_Camino_Viejo.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink El_Paso,_Texas.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Emigrant_Trail_in_Wyoming.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Bridger.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Hall.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Kearney.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Kearny.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Yuma.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Gadsden_Purchase.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Great_Basin.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Great_Plains.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Great_Platte_River_Road.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Great_Salt_Lake.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Horse.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Hudsons_Bay_Company.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Humboldt_River.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Idaho.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Illinois.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Immigrant.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Immigration.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Independence,_Missouri.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Infection.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Infectious_diseases.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Inland_port.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Interior_Plains.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Jim_Bridger.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Juarez,_Mexico.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Kearney,_Nebraska.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Kit_Carson.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles,_California.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Malnutrition.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Marcus_Whitman.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mesilla,_New_Mexico.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Methodist_Episcopal_Church.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Methodist_Mission.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mexican-American_War.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mexican_American_War.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mexican–American_War.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mission_San_Gabriel_Arcángel.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Missouri.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Missouri_River.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mojave_Desert.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mormon_Battalion.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mormon_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mormon_handcart_pioneers.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Mule.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink National_Scenic_Byway.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Native_Americans_in_the_United_States.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Nauvoo,_Illinois.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Nebraska.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Nevada.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink New_Mexico.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink New_Mexico_Territory.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink North_Platte_River.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Old_Mormon_Road.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Old_Spanish_Trail_(trade_route).
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Oregon_Country.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Oregon_Territory.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Oregon_Trail.
- Westward_Expansion_Trails wikiPageWikiLink Oregon_Treaty.