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Emigrant Trail and Oregon Trail in Idaho.
This area, particularly around Hagerman Valley, offered a place of respite for pioneers traveling westward in the mid-1800s.
It is now part of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, known for a large concentration of fossils.
from the BLM: The Oregon Trail, a 2,170-mile route from Missouri to the Willamette Valley used in the 1840s-1880s, was not a set road but a series of trails. It was rarely traversed by Conestoga wagons (usually smaller prairie schooners) and was primarily used for migration, not the commonly depicted, rare Indian attacks
This area, particularly around Hagerman Valley, offered a place of respite for pioneers traveling westward in the mid-1800s.
It is now part of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, known for a large concentration of fossils.
from the BLM: The Oregon Trail, a 2,170-mile route from Missouri to the Willamette Valley used in the 1840s-1880s, was not a set road but a series of trails. It was rarely traversed by Conestoga wagons (usually smaller prairie schooners) and was primarily used for migration, not the commonly depicted, rare Indian attacks