• Director: Steve Boettcher
  • Release Year: 1993
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

The Oregon Trail

Description

The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile, wagon-train journey from Missouri to Oregon with many families, including men who made the trip to settle new land and set up the government after they "settled in."

Themes

Manifest Destiny, Individualism, Eurocentrism, Native Americans, Immigration, Pioneers, Emigrant Trails, Fur Trade, Family relationships, Crime, Pacific Northwest, Race relations, Colonialism, Human migration, Journalism, Wagons, Capitalism, Political history