Oregon Trail

In 1859, Albert Bierstadt, a renowned Western artist, captured what likely stands as the earliest photographic documentation of a pioneer wagon train traversing Wyoming, descending a hill towards the Big Sandy River valley.

The Wyoming School Facilities Department approved the use of Major Maintenance Funds for this project.

The American Solar Challenge is is currently taking place and, this year, the event follows the route of the Oregon trail, meaning that Casper has served as a checkpoint for the racers.

It turns out that there are lots of similarities between the REAL Oregon Trail and the Famous Oregon Trail game created in the late 1970s.

Have you visited all of the Wyoming locations from the 1985 Video Game, The Oregon Trail? Let's find out.

The Harlem Wizards will be bringing their high-flying, rim-rocking, slam-dunking basketball skills to Casper on February 5th, 2018 at Kelly Walsh High School.

This mound of granite is one landmark for early travelers along the Oregon Trail. Even today, it is easy to imagine the homesteaders voyaging across the prairie.

The cabin made of rocks and hides was a pit stop on the way from Oregon to St Louis. The trip was the first time Westerners traveled through the South Pass.

Because of the Oregon Trail, the United States includes California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. We are here in Wyoming because of some very brave people who came before us. We stand on the shoulders of giants. As a nation, we believed it was our Manifest Destiny during the 19th century that the United States was destined to stretch from coast to coast...

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