Trails West

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Trails West: devoted to promoting web sites that have content about trappers, freighting, pioneer, or emigrant trails of the westward movement. Also: sites that have content about that westward movement. Examples: methods of transportation: stage coaches, Conestoga wagons, prairie schooners, and steam engines; mountain men, pioneers, explorers, outlaws, life styles, women, diaries, forts and settlements, military actions, also modern sites and sights in or near western historical places.

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Colorado's Cherokee Trail Preview — Go
Take a trip back in time - to the early 18th & 19th centuries - and travel the Cherokee Trail up the front range of the Colorado Rockies.

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Virginia Dale Stage Station Preview — Go
Visit Virginia Dale, the only stage station still intact on the Overland Trail. Built in 1862 by the infamous Jack Slade for Ben Holladay, the "Stagecoach King."

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Emigrant Diaries, Memoirs, Reports Along Trails West Preview — Go
Contains Emigrant Diaries and Journals, letters, reports, memoirs of the trek west along the many Trails West. Also diaries of trappers and explorers.

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Tom Horn - The Legends, The Truth Preview — Go
Definitive reference on Tom Horn, the murderous cattle detective accused of killing Willie Nickel.

My Oregon Trail Families Preview — Go
These are my many families who had the fortitude (read 'guts') to put a few things in a wagon and cross the prairies to Oregon in 1843 - 1868. (photo's included)