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=__The Pioneers and the Oregon Trail__= Claire Shroder Jennifer Zheng Max Wagner Edin Kandic 1.It was West for my group. We wanted a new life, free land, and fertile soil 2. We feared the Indians would kill us and take the animals. We learned to circle our wagons when attacked, and bring the animals inside our make-shift stockade. 3."1843-1869 when the first transcontinental railroad was completed, there were over 500,000 people who made the trip...." -Frontier Trails of the Old West. 1841-1860 pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail. Pioneers (above)

During eight decades in the 1800s the Oregon Trail was a natural corridor, pioneers moved from the eastern half of the continent toward the West coast.