then merged with the Oregon Trail east of Fort Kearny. This trail, called the Ox-Bow because of its curve, was between 200 and 225 miles long. Omaha, eager to seize the trailhead function from ...

Trail registers kept at Fort Kearny (as well as at Fort Laramie farther west) helped document traffic levels on the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails, which peaked at roughly 50,000 annually in ...

I HAD KNOWN LONG BEFORE I rode a covered wagon to Oregon that naïveté ... quickly heralded in published trail guides as the last major layover until Fort Kearny in Nebraska, two hundred miles ...

Over 175 years ago, adventurers who wanted to travel west began making their way across the Oregon Trail ... fort provided protection for pioneers and was the noted fort between Fort Kearny ...

The trail also is known as the Council Bluffs Road, Omaha Road, Great Platte River Road, Omaha-Fort Kearny Military Road and the North Branch of the Oregon Trail. The main branch of the Oregon ...

The centennial of Meeker's retracing of the Oregon Trail will be celebrated at 3 p.m. Saturday at Fort Kearny. Ten re-enactors and an Ezra Meeker impersonator began their journey from Tacoma ...

The Oregon Trail road trip starts in Cannon Beach ... plus often live events and reenactments. Another notable fort in Nebraska is Fort Kearny State Historic Park, which is filled with ...

mule_call_by_rinker_buck_07092015-150710-105650 He learned the skill to cross the Oregon Trail ... in published trail guides as the last major layover until Fort Kearny in Nebraska, two hundred ...

STORY - Bozeman Trail Days will highlight the Laramie Treaty of 1868 with a variety of historical presentations, activities and tours Friday through Sunday at Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site ...