Terrible Trail
Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
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Subject:While trying to find their way into the upper Williamette Valley, emigrants traveled an alternate route that started in present-day Vale and traversed the desert near this site.
MEEK/ELLIOTT THE TERRIBLE TRAIL
Weary Oregon Trail emigrants, eager to ease travel or gain mileage, often attempted cutoffs and shortcuts. While many of these alternate routes proved successful, others did not–they became roads to ruin for some and the end of the trail for …