The Oregon Trail, Fort Kearny to Fort Bridger
This is the first of three posts which follow the Oregon Trail from Fort Kearny, Nebraska to Oregon City, Oregon. The second is titled The Oregon/California Trail: Fort Bridger to Fort Hall , and the third is The Oregon Trail in Idaho and Oregon . I will continue to improve these posts as new information and better photos become available to me. Addition information can be found in my posts Crossing the Wasatch and California Trail- Salt Lake Cutoff. I appreciate your feedback and comments. Right off, I want to explain that I chose the title for this post based on what I believe most people think of in regard to westward expansion. From Fort Kearny in Nebraska to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, this was also the California Trail, the Mormon Trail and, briefly, the Pony Express Route. Altogether, over half a million emigrants followed this route, mostly on foot, their belongings carried in ox or mule drawn wagons, or in handcarts. Even though a minority of them actually arrived