Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

Under the bright afternoon sun, teams of excited Hedges Elementary School third-grade pioneers pulling covered wagons rounded the last bend before Dry Bridge Park, or, using their imaginations, the ...

The Oregon Trail was used by Americans who wanted to travel west to the “New Country.” Besides some super early adopters, people really started taking it in the 1840s and continued to use it through ...

A Native American village is depicted in “The Oregon Trail” video game released this year. The new version of the childhood game still features familiar milestones including Chimney Rock and the ...

Gameloft has officially brought all of the fun, education, and 1800s diseases from their modern version of The Oregon Trail over to PlayStation consoles this week. This is the current version of the ...

Every Wednesday in Mrs. Keller’s fifth-grade classroom at Dunsmuir Elementary in Northern California, my friends and I clamored for a spot at the computer to play The Oregon Trail, a historical game ...

Game developers consulted with historians to create accurate depictions of 19th-century Native American life. The new version features playable Native characters. Gameloft The iconic video game “The ...