Just knowing that there ARE young people who are interested in and KNOW History gives so many older folk hope. Thanks for being one for the young who care.
This young woman is a terrific educator. Excellent, clear, succinct, informative, upbeat, thorough, well-researched. Well done!!!!. The dress and boots totally fit the video theme too. Superb.
Thank you Kylie, my 5th g grandfather was Lewis Ingram, he was two when his father, James W. Ingram, Elva Ingram would have been my aunt had she survived. An interesting family story is that Lewis and his sister were saved by Indians. The family along with the Aiken Train (the families were connected by marriage) reached The Dalles, the two children were in a wagon box being drifted down the Columbia river when the wagon box broke loose and was swept away by the currents. Two Indians raced in out in a canoe and saved them, I wouldn't be here if it were not for two brave Indians.
Reminds me of one of my favorite often retold stories of the travails that faced pioneers who left Rowena and The Dalles on rafts. Many didn't make it. My parents had property on the Columbia at Rowena that was a raft build and launch site. One of the launch ways was cut through solid Basalt and is still there. A piece of history long forgotten, but never going away as long as the planet doesn't experience major geological upheavals or some developer blasts it into oblivion.
Kylie, you are a wonderful narrator ! Your excitement and respect for American History is very admirable. The early settlers were incredibly tough, and endured more than we can even imagine. Well done in bringing this story to us. Thank you :-)
Thank you! My 3rd great grand father died in 1878 at Glenn Ferry. He is buried beside a 24 year old girl at the entrance of someone's property what is today private property. Wish I could visit the grave.
So cool! We are all so appreciative of the efforts made to both preserve such historical landmarks, and educate the rest of us that simply want to know the history. CHEERS!
Thanks for this informative video. I really enjoy learning about our history from the 1800s as well as other time periods. It’s great to see those markers that preserve a part of our history.
Thanks to the Oregon-California Trail Association. I wondered what made a swale. Found an NPS site explaining that originally the wagons left ruts. Over time the ruts erode leaving wide depressions, sort of like ditches. Those are the swales.
It’s great to hear that people are making efforts to protect what I view as American history. I live on the East Coast and years ago I took my family on a car trip across the country and we were privileged to see some of this history. To see those wagon wheel marks so many years later is amazing. It makes the past come alive when you’re there. Great job with your presentation. Take care
Thanks and appreciate your comment. Great to hear of your travel journey. Protecting and preserving the trail is OCTA's core mission. Check out octa-trails.org to see if there is other information that you might find interesting and keep in touch.
Thank you Kylie. Another great piece of history from OCTA and very well done. My 4th Great Grandfather, Samuel Townsend (1783-1863), from Jo Daviess County, IL, was part of the "Upper Mississippi Ox Company" you mention with Andrew Childs in 1850. Samuel was 67 years old on his Gold Rush journey to Rough & Ready, CA, which his son, Absalom A. Townsend (1810-1888), founded in September 1849. I did not know about the Childs cutoff until seeing this video. Those wagon train Captains were always looking for ways to cutoff time and find good water and grass as it truly was a "rush" to the gold.
Thank you for increasing my awareness of these immigrant trails. Although I live close to South Pass WY I have not spent any significant amount of time searching out these trails. I do marvel at the determination of the settlers to cross the country and face enormous hardships and risks to cross such inhospitable territory. When the weather warms I plan to get out and do some exploring, and maybe I'll find a great guide like Kylie out there to tell me what I'm seeing.
Thanks - great comment. Here are some thoughts on where you can connect. The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper (supported by the City, Foundation, and BLM) offers guided ranger tours. Kylie worked here for a few years doing those tours. A great place to get information and opportunities to get out on the trail. OCTA has a Wyoming Chapter with excellent members as well. octa-trails.org/regional-chapters/wyoming-chapter/ Tom Rea is the Chapter Leader
@@octatrails Thank you! I am not someone who has a heritage of being descended from those early travelers, I chose to live in WY precisely because of the rugged beauty and fascinating history!
Thank you for the video! Kylie had done a great job in giving us some information on a part of the Oregon Trail. I've already saved a few points of interest to my bucket list of rides, but I now have this one to add. Just north of me (I live in Vernal Utah) on the way north to Rock Spring, there is the Cherokee Trail that had gone to Fort Bridger. I have yet to explore more of it, but it is on my list to explore. I am fascinated by our western history, and I love to see videos like this so that I can continue to learn more and give me more ideas of places to visit in my travels. I have recently discovered that I have a distant family member who had explored parts of the west back in the later part of the 1800's. His name is Samual P. Emmons. There's a mountain peak and a town that are both named after him. I'm still learning about his travels. Thank you, octa Trails Association, for this great and informative video.
Thanks Kylie. Great educational video. I’m impressed with your in depth knowledge and your enthusiasm for past history shows. I’ll make a point of checking out these areas. I ride horses and when I am on long trail rides, I often think about pioneers traveling across the West on horseback and wagons. I almost feel like I have done it in my past life. By the way I love seeing women in dresses and cowboy boots. You look very cute in your outfit and fits really well with your narration.
Very nice video. As an "Original Transcon RR" enthusiast, who enjoys this era's fulfillment of Manifest Destiny, thank you for your most excellent presentation, Kylie. We have been to the Douglas Interpretive Center, also. Thanks from Darrell. Subscribed.
Thank you , and God bless you , young lady , for this wonderful historical presentation . If we don't know where we're coming from , we won 't know where we're going to !!!
So happy to find this video on my algorithm. Travelled to Yellowstone from Colorado on I-25 and had seen the ruts of the Oregon Trail in the sagebrush that ran perpendicular to the highway south of Casper. The ruts appeared to be a few feet deep and could not imagine the blood, sweat, and tears these people encountered. By the same token considered the thoughts of the Native Americans and how this impacted their lives also. Quite a bit of US history in these ruts.
That is a well said comment on both fronts. OCTA has over 190 videos on various aspects of western trails. Hope you can catch some additional ones and share with people who might appreciate this piece of history. Thanks for watching
Nicely done, Kylie! I've traveled the Oregon Trail several times through Wyoming, but haven't ventured much into the Douglas area. I'll be sure to do a bit of exploring on my next trip.
Well, this is really cool. Great video. I live at the very end of the Oregon Trail, literally 5 minutes away from the Barlow Road route into Oregon City. I'm very grateful to those folks for making the trip. I might not be here otherwise.
Hi, like you channel,where i camp just north of Flagstaff in fortvalley there is the Beale wagon road ,a trail that was used by wagons back in the day,these people were not concerned about trash they left metal containers everywhere along the trail.maybe it was a over night spot but lots of metal oil or food containers. Good luck Dan.
Thanks Dan. OCTA has a Southern Trails Chapter that does a lot of interesting work in Arizona. Let me know if you are interested in getting in touch with them.
Kylie, I didn't know about this site until today. I like your video, and it is great to see someone who is interested in history, and in the West, as you are. I noticed one of the maps you showed had Nauvoo, Illinois as the beginning point, which was of the Mormon Trail - very important in our history of the West. I know Independence, Missouri is the starting point most known to the public, but have you covered the Mormon Trail in an earlier video? Great job on this video, and keep up the good work...
We have some Mormon content, but always looking to add additional. Here are a couple to watch. ua-cam.com/video/mhlFDDP48nQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_bo1ZIMX9Ks/v-deo.html
Thank you for the videos. I recently was able to learn, a great aunt x’s 5, on their journey lost her husband(Reeves) and then continued with people who had several children. They finally settled in Utah. She continued to live with the same family. Later married again to Henry Standage , her name Sophronia Armenia Scott Standage Very interesting to research the family
Thanks for sharing! I would recommend checking out octa-trails.org for more information on western migration stories and information. They hold an enormous amount of knowledge and content about families that trekked across the country
Good job, Kylie! As a resident of Boise, where the Oregon trail is visible just East of town, I recall state historical signs, but are there markers similar to those you mentioned? Or was Idaho just skipped bcuz who would want to live in Idaho! Lately it seems a lot of people, if the internet can be trusted!
Hi, I believe you are referring to the white carsonite markers? There are a lot of them in Idaho. I would like to put you in touch with our Idaho Chapter leader Jerry Eichhorst. Let me know if you are interested. Or go to www.idahoocta.org/ Thanks
Love what yall do .... comin up civil surveying the term swale has a kind of different meaning to me, but I think i know what your gettin at more or less, you may be referring to the trail itself, as the term is the place parralelling a road to flow drainage water but shallow instead of deeper like a ditch - thank you from an old tired retired civil surveyor who enjoys such things.... and god bless your work.
Interesting. One of my daughters married into the Child family. I wonder if her in-laws are related to the person that made that northern path. They are not currently living in Wyoming, but they do live along what was the Oregon Trail. It has never come up in conversation, so next time I visit I will have to ask about their heritage. If they even know! I'll bet that the knowledge of whether their ancestor made that decision might be something that has been lost, even if they are.
Definately many miles of trail have been developed or farmed. We are fortunate that some owners are able to help preserve history as well as our public lands are stewards of the trails. OCTA was founded because of trails being lost and the core mission of the organization is to protect and preserve the remaining sections. Thanks for that comment and for watching.
I've been to Casper where the BLM has the National Trails Museum, been to Independence Rock, and Martins Cove, Mormon Handcart Historical Center by Devils Gate....
I grew up in central Nebraska in the 1960’s on the south side of the Platte River. At the time you could still see in spots where the Oregon Trail travelled.
There are still visible swales at the eastbound rest area off I-80 at Sutherland (Exit 159), NE, and California Hill, just a couple miles west of Brule, NE on U.S. 30, is amazing.
worked oil field all over wyoming--stopped at all the pioneer places,grave site,wagon wheel ruts--independence rock and all the writings are impressive--the places where the Mormons had their issues --forget the name but the place where about 150 died in a winter storm--many places...
Great question - many California bound travelers were interested in gold - so the Sierra east of Sacramento attracted an abundance. But as you probably are aware - settlers looking for land and opportunity populated many parts of the state from north to south. Johnson Ranch was where the Donner Party survivors came out of the mountains.
Metal detecting is an interesting topic. Yes - absolutely there are sites on the trail where OCTA has engaged with land owners, public land management, archeologists, and other experts to ensure we preserve history while exploring the past to bet piece together the stories. Thanks for the comment. Here is a video about the New Fork Park in Wyoming that was a partnership of entities to preserve history. ua-cam.com/video/8TI4vFfUBrQ/v-deo.html
Great question - it is a linear depression in this case caused by continued iron wagon wheels and draft animals, primarily oxen following the same path. Very similar to a rut and sometimes the words are used interchangably. OCTA and the National Park Service have jointly developed a classification system to use as we continually map new sections of the trail to track and record depth, width, and slope to help understand the volume and current condition of swales. It adds to our knowledge, especially of the volume of traffic that may have used that route. Here is a page on the OCTA webstie that you might find interesting about swales octa-trails.org/trail-sites/
Just knowing that there ARE young people who are interested in and KNOW History gives so many older folk hope. Thanks for being one for the young who care.
You bet!
This young woman is a terrific educator. Excellent, clear, succinct, informative, upbeat, thorough, well-researched. Well done!!!!. The dress and boots totally fit the video theme too. Superb.
Wow, thank you!
agree
We want to adopt her!
Where can we apply?
@5150Bud well, considering she's in her 30s, she may no longer be eligible for adoption.
@@octatrails there’s no age limit on adoptions.
It comes with a very generous inheritance benefit; beach house, classic cars, trust fund account, etc.
Thank you Kylie, my 5th g grandfather was Lewis Ingram, he was two when his father, James W. Ingram, Elva Ingram would have been my aunt had she survived. An interesting family story is that Lewis and his sister were saved by Indians. The family along with the Aiken Train (the families were connected by marriage) reached The Dalles, the two children were in a wagon box being drifted down the Columbia river when the wagon box broke loose and was swept away by the currents. Two Indians raced in out in a canoe and saved them, I wouldn't be here if it were not for two brave Indians.
That is an awesome story!
Interesting. My great great grandfathers name was Lewis Ingram.
Reminds me of one of my favorite often retold stories of the travails that faced pioneers who left Rowena and The Dalles on rafts. Many didn't make it.
My parents had property on the Columbia at Rowena that was a raft build and launch site. One of the launch ways was cut through solid Basalt and is still there. A piece of history long forgotten, but never going away as long as the planet doesn't experience major geological upheavals or some developer blasts it into oblivion.
My g grandmother was born Naomi Ann Ingram, married John Calvin Jackson, @@user-vg4cg4uw9c
Thank you for your family's information. Amazing 😊
A job well done Kylie. Thank you for sharing the history there.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you kylie, Randy and the city of Douglas! Appreciate your great vision and appreciation of the past.
What a sweet and respectful presenter!
Thanks.
RSA.
Thank you too!
Kylie, you are a wonderful narrator !
Your excitement and respect for American History is very admirable.
The early settlers were incredibly tough, and endured more than we can even imagine. Well done in bringing this story to us. Thank you :-)
Thank you so much!
Very professionally done Miss Kylie!
Thanks for the kind comment
Thank you Kylie McCormick for this excellent presentation.
You're very welcome!
I miss Wyoming. Go Pokes!!! Nice job young lady.
Good job and well spoken.
Thank you! My 3rd great grand father died in 1878 at Glenn Ferry. He is buried beside a 24 year old girl at the entrance of someone's property what is today private property. Wish I could visit the grave.
Usually you are allowed access, check with the county where the cemetery is..
I would assume they would let you...
So cool! We are all so appreciative of the efforts made to both preserve such historical landmarks, and educate the rest of us that simply want to know the history. CHEERS!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Would you run into Fort Fetterman following those swales?
Fort Fetterman is on the south side of the North Platte River. The Childs Cutoff runs on the north side. Thanks for watching!
Incredible family history! Thank you for sharing.
You could not get more ADORABLE!
Thanks for this informative video. I really enjoy learning about our history from the 1800s as well as other time periods. It’s great to see those markers that preserve a part of our history.
Totally agree - the markers make the trail come to life!
Great job! Nice dress and boots.
Thank you. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to keep seeing our content.
SHE IS ADORABLE AND NICE TO LISTEN TO! GREAT INFORMATION!!!
You are so kind
Excellent presentation. I wish I had learned more about this while stationed in Utah.
thanks Kylie, a swell swale indeed!
Love your history telling and more people should read the comments and hear other people's stories can be a learning experience as well thank you 🇺🇸🤔
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting!! Ax
Thanks to the Oregon-California Trail Association. I wondered what made a swale. Found an NPS site explaining that originally the wagons left ruts. Over time the ruts erode leaving wide depressions, sort of like ditches. Those are the swales.
Yes - there is actually a classification system that OCTA and NPS have developed to categorize. Thanks for your comment and support.
Awesome presentation, bravo Kylie! 👏👏
Thanks so much! 😊
Excellent job young lady!!!
Appreciate it!
Are you from Wyoming?
It’s great to hear that people are making efforts to protect what I view as American history. I live on the East Coast and years ago I took my family on a car trip across the country and we were privileged to see some of this history. To see those wagon wheel marks so many years later is amazing. It makes the past come alive when you’re there. Great job with your presentation. Take care
Thanks and appreciate your comment. Great to hear of your travel journey. Protecting and preserving the trail is OCTA's core mission. Check out octa-trails.org to see if there is other information that you might find interesting and keep in touch.
1883 brought me here. Thanks for your post and important historical work. Greetings from New Zealand.
Welcome!
Thank you Kylie. Another great piece of history from OCTA and very well done. My 4th Great Grandfather, Samuel Townsend (1783-1863), from Jo Daviess County, IL, was part of the "Upper Mississippi Ox Company" you mention with Andrew Childs in 1850. Samuel was 67 years old on his Gold Rush journey to Rough & Ready, CA, which his son, Absalom A. Townsend (1810-1888), founded in September 1849. I did not know about the Childs cutoff until seeing this video. Those wagon train Captains were always looking for ways to cutoff time and find good water and grass as it truly was a "rush" to the gold.
Are you an OCTA member? If not - you might check out OCTA-Trails.org
Thanks for this. Great presentation, and photography
Thanks for those kind words!
Thank you for increasing my awareness of these immigrant trails. Although I live close to South Pass WY I have not spent any significant amount of time searching out these trails. I do marvel at the determination of the settlers to cross the country and face enormous hardships and risks to cross such inhospitable territory. When the weather warms I plan to get out and do some exploring, and maybe I'll find a great guide like Kylie out there to tell me what I'm seeing.
Thanks - great comment. Here are some thoughts on where you can connect. The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper (supported by the City, Foundation, and BLM) offers guided ranger tours. Kylie worked here for a few years doing those tours. A great place to get information and opportunities to get out on the trail. OCTA has a Wyoming Chapter with excellent members as well. octa-trails.org/regional-chapters/wyoming-chapter/ Tom Rea is the Chapter Leader
@@octatrails Thank you! I am not someone who has a heritage of being descended from those early travelers, I chose to live in WY precisely because of the rugged beauty and fascinating history!
Kylie is good, most content creators find it distracting outdoors, she stays on point and has great voice control.
Agreed!
Very cool. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video for us all to enjoy!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I give you a grade A on the history lesson.
Thank you 🙏
Wow, thanks
Thank you for the video! Kylie had done a great job in giving us some information on a part of the Oregon Trail. I've already saved a few points of interest to my bucket list of rides, but I now have this one to add.
Just north of me (I live in Vernal Utah) on the way north to Rock Spring, there is the Cherokee Trail that had gone to Fort Bridger. I have yet to explore more of it, but it is on my list to explore. I am fascinated by our western history, and I love to see videos like this so that I can continue to learn more and give me more ideas of places to visit in my travels.
I have recently discovered that I have a distant family member who had explored parts of the west back in the later part of the 1800's. His name is Samual P. Emmons. There's a mountain peak and a town that are both named after him. I'm still learning about his travels.
Thank you, octa Trails Association, for this great and informative video.
Thanks for sharing this history and for watching
Wow, another great presentation, I hope everyone is sharing these treasures :)
I hope so too!
Thanks Kylie. Great educational video. I’m impressed with your in depth knowledge and your enthusiasm for past history shows.
I’ll make a point of checking out these areas. I ride horses and when I am on long trail rides, I often think about pioneers traveling across the West on horseback and wagons. I almost feel like I have done it in my past life.
By the way I love seeing women in dresses and cowboy boots. You look very cute in your outfit and fits really well with your narration.
Thank you so much!
Wow I've been watching wagon train on insp TV that is cool 🤠
Great presentation! Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Very nice video. As an "Original Transcon RR" enthusiast, who enjoys this era's fulfillment of Manifest Destiny, thank you for your most excellent presentation, Kylie. We have been to the Douglas Interpretive Center, also. Thanks from Darrell. Subscribed.
Darrell, thanks for the comment and for subscribing...
Very Cute Young Lady !!
Excellent!!
Glad you like it!
Thank you to everyone involved in this
My grandfather and his father travelled from Wyoming to California. I have the family bible. They were Stones.
Great family history. Do you know what year they made that journey?
Thank you for all you do! From a descendant of '43 and a voter at Champoeg. The American west may not have come to be without this trail.
For sure!
Nice job young lady! My cousin lives in Lander. He loves the history even though we’re from the Boston area.
Oh wow! We have several Lander specific videos. Here is the link to our Wyoming playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLxTzdgVbUd1t6fkaRYozszIEX2IqmpEjd.html
Thank you , and God bless you , young lady , for this wonderful historical presentation . If we don't know where we're coming from , we won 't know where we're going to !!!
You are very welcome
So happy to find this video on my algorithm. Travelled to Yellowstone from Colorado on I-25 and had seen the ruts of the Oregon Trail in the sagebrush that ran perpendicular to the highway south of Casper. The ruts appeared to be a few feet deep and could not imagine the blood, sweat, and tears these people encountered. By the same token considered the thoughts of the Native Americans and how this impacted their lives also. Quite a bit of US history in these ruts.
That is a well said comment on both fronts. OCTA has over 190 videos on various aspects of western trails. Hope you can catch some additional ones and share with people who might appreciate this piece of history. Thanks for watching
Great examples of swales, Kylie. Thank you.
always love the dress/boots combo
Thanks
Great job, thank you for being so enthusiastic! Oh to have taken that trip - second only to being with Lewis and Clark.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job Kylie!!
Thanks so much!
Nicely done, Kylie! I've traveled the Oregon Trail several times through Wyoming, but haven't ventured much into the Douglas area. I'll be sure to do a bit of exploring on my next trip.
Thanks Ray
Excellent, thanks!!
You're welcome! And thanks for all your comments
Terrific presentation. Thank you and your organization.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video ,thank you for sharing ,big hugs from MN
Thanks for watching! Love your comment
Thank you, that was fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you can share the UA-cam Channel with others who might appreciate it
I love western history. Reminds me of my Great Grandfather who drove a freight wagon route from Chicago to Sante Fe over 150 years ago.
Very cool!
Thanks for another great lesson/video Kylie. Can wait to see this next year.
You bet!
Just finished The Way West, great book about the folks moving west, they were tough people. Thank you for this video. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, this is really cool. Great video. I live at the very end of the Oregon Trail, literally 5 minutes away from the Barlow Road route into Oregon City. I'm very grateful to those folks for making the trip. I might not be here otherwise.
Very cool. Any interest in connecting with the OCTA Northwest Chapter?
Well presented, hope to learn more in other videos.
More to come!
Awesome presentation.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for this video. So much history…thank you for sharing. TJ
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi, like you channel,where i camp just north of Flagstaff in fortvalley there is the Beale wagon road ,a trail that was used by wagons back in the day,these people were not concerned about trash they left metal containers everywhere along the trail.maybe it was a over night spot but lots of metal oil or food containers. Good luck Dan.
Thanks Dan. OCTA has a Southern Trails Chapter that does a lot of interesting work in Arizona. Let me know if you are interested in getting in touch with them.
Kylie, I didn't know about this site until today. I like your video, and it is great to see someone who is interested in history, and in the West, as you are. I noticed one of the maps you showed had Nauvoo, Illinois as the beginning point, which was of the Mormon Trail - very important in our history of the West. I know Independence, Missouri is the starting point most known to the public, but have you covered the Mormon Trail in an earlier video? Great job on this video, and keep up the good work...
We have some Mormon content, but always looking to add additional. Here are a couple to watch. ua-cam.com/video/mhlFDDP48nQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_bo1ZIMX9Ks/v-deo.html
Good job, keep it up. Interesting information like this very informative and educational
Thanks, will do!
She’s beautiful
Thank you for the videos. I recently was able to learn, a great aunt x’s 5, on their journey lost her husband(Reeves) and then continued with people who had several children. They finally settled in Utah. She continued to live with the same family. Later married again to Henry Standage , her name Sophronia Armenia Scott Standage
Very interesting to research the family
Thanks for sharing! I would recommend checking out octa-trails.org for more information on western migration stories and information. They hold an enormous amount of knowledge and content about families that trekked across the country
Interesting, great job! Looks like you enjoy your work.
I do! Thanks
Good job, Kylie! As a resident of Boise, where the Oregon trail is visible just East of town, I recall state historical signs, but are there markers similar to those you mentioned? Or was Idaho just skipped bcuz who would want to live in Idaho!
Lately it seems a lot of people, if the internet can be trusted!
Hi, I believe you are referring to the white carsonite markers? There are a lot of them in Idaho. I would like to put you in touch with our Idaho Chapter leader Jerry Eichhorst. Let me know if you are interested. Or go to www.idahoocta.org/
Thanks
Nebraska also has some trail swales near Scottsbluff.
That is prime Oregon Trail country. OCTA had its National Trails Conference there last summer. Next year it will be in Pendleton OR
Love what yall do .... comin up civil surveying the term swale has a kind of different meaning to me, but I think i know what your gettin at more or less, you may be referring to the trail itself, as the term is the place parralelling a road to flow drainage water but shallow instead of deeper like a ditch - thank you from an old tired retired civil surveyor who enjoys such things.... and god bless your work.
Thanks Mark!
Interesting. One of my daughters married into the Child family. I wonder if her in-laws are related to the person that made that northern path. They are not currently living in Wyoming, but they do live along what was the Oregon Trail. It has never come up in conversation, so next time I visit I will have to ask about their heritage. If they even know! I'll bet that the knowledge of whether their ancestor made that decision might be something that has been lost, even if they are.
Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much 👍
Do you think that there are portions of these trials where their locations are not known/ lost to time?
Definately many miles of trail have been developed or farmed. We are fortunate that some owners are able to help preserve history as well as our public lands are stewards of the trails. OCTA was founded because of trails being lost and the core mission of the organization is to protect and preserve the remaining sections. Thanks for that comment and for watching.
I've been to Casper where the BLM has the National Trails Museum, been to Independence Rock, and Martins Cove, Mormon Handcart Historical Center by Devils Gate....
Great places!
Swale: a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land. 489 like ................
Very pretty girl doing a great job'. i lived at Kortes as a young man. Now live in Ga
Awesome! Thank you!
I grew up in central Nebraska in the 1960’s on the south side of the Platte River. At the time you could still see in spots where the Oregon Trail travelled.
Did you ever go to California Hill outside of Brule?
There are still visible swales at the eastbound rest area off I-80 at Sutherland (Exit 159), NE, and California Hill, just a couple miles west of Brule, NE on U.S. 30, is amazing.
@@octatrails can’t say for sure but knowing my dad if we were even close by when we little kids he would have stopped to let us look.
Are the swales natural or created by the numerous wagon crossings?
Great question! The swales are created by thousands of wagons and animals on the trail.
Those wagon trails are an interesting part of the westward expansion. Maybe you could do a segment on Independence Rock.
Absolutely
worked oil field all over wyoming--stopped at all the pioneer places,grave site,wagon wheel ruts--independence rock and all the writings are impressive--the places where the Mormons had their issues --forget the name but the place where about 150 died in a winter storm--many places...
Martins Cove on the Sun Ranch. An amazing place
You should map it all with Lidar.
Would provide a ton of additional information.
🥰
Thanks
There are swales near the real Lander cutoff on South Pass that will hide a full size 4wd.
Here's another video to check out ua-cam.com/video/WgETCvGWXGQ/v-deo.html
OCTA could not have picked a better presenter! 😉
What a nice comment - highly agree with your sentiment
Did you just film 🎥 this lately? Looks better weather than here in Ohio
Looks like maybe last year? Copyright 2023 The Oregon-California Trails Association. All Rights Reserved
That is last summer. Good eye
Yes. Last summer.
Good job girl. What was considered the end of the trail in California ?
Great question - many California bound travelers were interested in gold - so the Sierra east of Sacramento attracted an abundance. But as you probably are aware - settlers looking for land and opportunity populated many parts of the state from north to south. Johnson Ranch was where the Donner Party survivors came out of the mountains.
We live about 30 miles from Johnsons' ranch site@@octatrails
I guess a swell is a dip.
swale
Well Done... Very interesting. Remember the Donner Party...! (Shortcuts make Long-delays...)
For sure. Thanks for watching
Do you know if anyone has had any luck metal detecting the Oregon Trail?
Metal detecting is an interesting topic. Yes - absolutely there are sites on the trail where OCTA has engaged with land owners, public land management, archeologists, and other experts to ensure we preserve history while exploring the past to bet piece together the stories. Thanks for the comment. Here is a video about the New Fork Park in Wyoming that was a partnership of entities to preserve history. ua-cam.com/video/8TI4vFfUBrQ/v-deo.html
This was a swell swale video.
I see what you did there
😂😂😂
ironic that they are all emigrating back the other way nowadays
Interstate 80 makes the trip a little easier...
Buffalo Jump Wyoming.
What does the word swale mean?
Great question - it is a linear depression in this case caused by continued iron wagon wheels and draft animals, primarily oxen following the same path. Very similar to a rut and sometimes the words are used interchangably. OCTA and the National Park Service have jointly developed a classification system to use as we continually map new sections of the trail to track and record depth, width, and slope to help understand the volume and current condition of swales. It adds to our knowledge, especially of the volume of traffic that may have used that route. Here is a page on the OCTA webstie that you might find interesting about swales octa-trails.org/trail-sites/
Don't get the dysentery!
True that
What the hell is a swale?
Nice job, take a step back next so camera is cutting off your boots.
Thanks for the tip
Define “swale” please.
As you can see Kylie is standing in a linear depression made by iron wagon tires and oxen. Very similar to a rut