The main route of the Oregon Trail (green line) and California Trail (thick red line), including the Applegate Trail (northernmost thinner red line)
The Applegate Trail was an emigrant trail through the present-day U.S. states of Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon used in the mid-19th century by emigrants on the American frontier. It was originally intended as a less dangerous alternative to the Oregon Trail by which to reach the Oregon Territory. Much of the route was coterminous with the California Trail.
The ApplegateTrail was an emigrant trail through the present-day U.S. states of Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon used in the mid-19th century by...
Brothers Jesse and Lindsay Applegate, accompanied by 13 other white settlers, established the ApplegateTrail, or South Emigrant Trail, in 1846. It connected...
Viticultural Area ApplegateTrail, a pioneer trail through the Oregon Territory Applegate language, a language in the Athabaskan group Applegate tribe, a Native...
Highway 20 to the Willamette Valley. The ApplegateTrail (established 1846), cutting off the California Trail from the Humboldt River in Nevada, crossed...
discovered an easy shortcut between the ApplegateTrail in Nevada and the Lassen Trail in California. The trail was extensively used until the 1870s, when...
rank of colonel. Applegate was born on June 21, 1914, in Oregon. He was a descendant of Charles Applegate, who blazed the Oregon Trail in 1843 with his...
Jesse Applegate (July 5, 1811 – April 22, 1888) was an American pioneer who led a large group of settlers along the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country...
little used after about 1854. The Applegate–Lassen Cutoff or ApplegateTrail (est. 1846–48) left the California Trail at Lassen Meadows, near the present-day...
agent in the U.S. state of Oregon. A member of the Applegate family that helped open the ApplegateTrail, he was raised in Southern Oregon where he later...
Southern Emigrant Trail should not be confused with the ApplegateTrail, which is part of the Northern Emigrant Trails. Southern Emigrant Trail, also known...
Highway 20 to the Willamette Valley. The ApplegateTrail (established 1846) cutting off the California Trail from the Humboldt River in Nevada crossed...
Lindsay Applegate (September 18, 1808 – November 28, 1892) was an American pioneer known for his participation in blazing the ApplegateTrail, an alternative...
from Massachusetts, immigrated to the Oregon Country over the new ApplegateTrail in 1846. After arriving, she and Harvey L. Clark started a school and...
convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen, that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850. The ApplegateTrail, originally intended...
route, the trail was little used thereafter. The ApplegateTrail also traveled from Rye Patch Reservoir to Goose Lake. (The ApplegateTrail was intended...
and welcome to US immigrants who had arrived at the post over the Oregon Trail. By the mid-1840s, the tide of US immigration, as well as a US political...
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southern Oregon or to move southward to the California gold fields. The ApplegateTrail, blazed in the late 1840s, provided the first reliable path for white...
of The Oregon Trail". The road was constructed as a toll road – $5 per wagon – and was very successful. In addition, the ApplegateTrail was created to...
became the first ever to make it as far west as the mission on the Oregon Trail, although to get it there they ended up leaving the load behind. In Oregon...
arrived in the 19th century. The pioneer wagon route known as the ApplegateTrail crossed the Goose Lake Valley on its way to southern Oregon. At the...
when a party of 15 men led by Jesse Applegate developed a southern alternative to the Oregon Trail; the new trail was used by emigrants headed for the...
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