With the Oregon Trail being one of 20 national historic trails administered by the National Park Service and so many road trip options available to travelers why do we consider the Oregon Trail to be ...

A North Carolina middle school teacher, decided to take his Oregon Trail lesson to the next level this year by making a music video based on NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" called "Straight Intta ...

For many us, the storied Oregon Trail mainly exists in vintage computer games and old history books. But for those who wish to walk the path of the pioneers, Oregon, not surprisingly, is a playground.

I HAD KNOWN LONG BEFORE I rode a covered wagon to Oregon that naïveté was the mother of adventure. I just didn't understand how much of that I really had. Nicholas and I realized before we left ...

The Oregon Trail games are brutal. Characters that you grow to love always die, your wagon is prone to breaking down, and there are always bandits ready to attack you at your weakest. The Oregon Trail ...

In the early part of the 1840s an inconvenient truth faced Dr. John McLoughlin, chief factor of Fort Vancouver for the Hudson's Bay Company. The coming wave of westward migration threatened the ...

Any child of the 1980s is familiar with the basic skeleton of the Oregon Trail, from the celebrations warranted by a sight of Chimney Rock to the dangers of running a team of oxen at a grueling pace ...

PC Gamer Ranked are our ridiculously comprehensive lists of the best, worst, and everything in-between from every corner of PC gaming. Until recently I knew precisely two things about Oregon. The guy ...

After several dozen summers wandering the country in a series of VW vans, in 2010 we embarked on a refresher course in American history by following the route of pioneers on the Oregon Trail and ...

The pioneer journey to a new life in the West is one of America’s great narratives. During the mid-1800s, upwards of 350,000 men, women and children traveled the Oregon Trail following a series of ...