The roughly 2,000-mile Oregon Trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon in the 1800s, including 500 miles in Idaho alone. By 1846, thousands of emigrants “drawn west by cheap land, patriotism or the ...
SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...