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- In 1842, a widower leaves his Illinois farm and heads west towards Oregon with his three children to seek a better life.
- In 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
- After their father accidentally burns down their farm, a family travels down the Oregon trail, finding themselves up against McDoon the Bandit King, lobsters with grudges, a very horny ox and a whole lost of dysentery.
- U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
- Mockumentary series about a group of summer campers and their overzealous leader in their attempt to recreate the famous trail-- with less-than-accurate results.
- Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town and is appointed Sheriff. When he causes problems for the corrupt officials who appointed him, they try to kill him, and he wants revenge.
- The player takes on the role of a wagon leader guiding a group of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in the year 1848.
- Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox. Hunter attempts to ambush Ryder and his pal "Bear Trap" and when this fails, he kidnaps Little Beaver, grandson of the Chief, and kills the Judge, with whom the boy had been staying. But the boy manages to escape. The Duchess, Ryder's aunt, turns up and tries to persuade Ryder to return east with her. He discovers her and Little Beaver as stowaways in the supply train he is taking to the Indian camp. Hunter stages a fake Indian attack and attempts to recapture Little Beaver. The latter escapes and locates Running Fox who leads his warriors to the rescue. Hunter tries to escape by using Little Beaver as a shield, but he is knocked cold by the Duchess who sneaks up behind him. There is a joyful reunion between the old chief and his grandson, but Little Beaver elects to stay with Ryder and renounces his right to one day be chief in favor of Barking Squirrel.
- The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians but Monte Hale breaks up his attack on the supply train. But when they get them by robbing the warehouse, Monte suspects Thuston who had the other key. He follows Thurston only to be caught by him just as Thurston launches his final big attack.
- Frontier scout Jeff Scott (Johnny Mack Brown) and his pal, Deadwood Hawkins (Fuzzy Knight), are hired by Washington officials to stop outlaw and Indian raids on pioneer wagon trains crossing the western plains. Strangely, only those trains bound for the rich fur-trapping regions of the Oregon territory are molested. Keeping their identity secret, Jeff and Deadwood overtake a wagon train in time to save its occupants from an Indian-attack massacre. They rescue Margaret Mason (Louise Stanley) and Johnnie Clark (Bill Cody, Jr.), a young boy whose father was killed in the attack. Jeff suspects that the wagonmaster "Bull" Bragg (Jack C. Smith) is a spy for the raiders and has Bragg thrown out of his job. Bragg, after inciting an Indian attack and starting a prairie fire, is thrown into jail. Bragg is working under the orders of Sam Morgan (James Blaine), the manager for a fur company syndicate that hopes to keep the settlers out of Oregon. After many dangers and disasters, the wagon train finally reaches Oregon. When the settlers prepare to stake out land claims, Morgan flashes a fake land grant and demands they pay him a high price for the land.
- A band of settlers on the Oregon Trail is attacked by outlaws, who steal their horses. The horses are returned and the outlaws chased off by three cowboys who just happen to pass by. Years later, the three cowboys again save the settlers when they are threatened by some rebellious farmworkers.
- Beginning in the 1840s, nearly 350,000 people traveled west on the Oregon Trail in the largest voluntary human migration ever recorded. Many of these pioneers were women. In this program - produced in conjunction with the sesquicentennial celebration of the Oregon Trail crossing - author and historian LaRee Johnson reads from the journals of three courageous women - Lucy Ann Bailey, Mary Esther West Riddle, and Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer - as they describe in their own words the joys and hardships of their journeys. Recorded in beautiful Pacific Northwest locations and featuring authentic period costumes, this unique video provides a glimpse into the challenges faced by the pioneers as they settled the wilds of Oregon.
- "Two times better than my dream" - A 10-year-old Iraqi refugee describes his new life in the U.S.
- "Emigrant Road - An Oregon Trail Adventure" follows in the footsteps of the pioneers and visits trail sites as they exist today, tracing the historic nineteenth-century wagon road from Independence, Missouri, through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington to its end at Oregon City, near Portland, Oregon.
- Half of Oregon is high desert, vast and teeming with wildlife. To highlight this special place, the Oregon Natural Desert Association created a trail stretching from the center of the state to nearly the Idaho border. It also found an explorer -- aptly named Sage -- to undertake the trail's maiden trek.
- Ride along with the pioneers who suffered hardships and victories to forge The Oregon Trail, America's longest and most famous trail. Then discover little-known facts about the legendary Pony Express riders and their part in the Civil War.
- In 1864, a family embarks on an impossible journey into the untamed American West.
- An immersive first-person journey across America's wild, weird, and wonder-filled state. Recorded on-location in surround sound audio, this documentary style podcast is designed to put you in the heart of Oregon's most spectacular travel experiences. Led by expert guides and local characters, award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar will take you beyond the guidebook to reveal Oregon's secrets and discover the places only locals know. Join him on an adventure through one of America's most awe-inspiring states and feel what it's like to be there for real.