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Endnotes
1 Robert Richmond, A Nation moving west: Readings in the History of the American <strong>West</strong> (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1966), 124
2 This paragraph was made up using different maps of the United States and trail specific maps.
3 Louisiana’s northern and western boarders were undefined and thus stretch as far as ones imagination could
stretch.
4 Lawrence Kaplan, Thomas Jefferson <strong>West</strong>ward the Course of Empire (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc,
1999), 34.
5 Gunther Barth, <strong>The</strong> Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1998), 46.
6 Robert Richmond, A Nation moving west, 123.
7Ibid.
8Wallace Stegner "<strong>The</strong> Oregon Trail...Road to Destiny." Trails <strong>West</strong>, 1979, 40-74.
9Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Waiilatpu was the mission where the Whitmans were stationed.
12 Robert Richmond, A Nation moving west, 322.
13 Ibid 324.
14 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852: As Told by Mary Ann Boatman (Pullman: Washington State
University Press, 2001), 10.
15 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,10.
16 Thomas A. Rumer, <strong>The</strong> Wagon Trains of '44: A Comparative View of the Individual Caravans in the Emigration of
1844 to Oregon (Spokane: <strong>The</strong> Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990), 92-93.
17 Thomas A. Rumer, <strong>The</strong> Wagon Trains of '44, 92-93.
18 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,13.
19 Ibid., 13.
20 Ibid.14.
21 Ibid.,14.
22 Thomas A. Rumer, <strong>The</strong> Wagon Trains of '44, 96.
23 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,16.
24 Robert Richmond, A Nation moving west, 169.
25 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852, 23-25.
26 Ibid., 28-35.
27 Ibid., 47.
28 Ibid., 47.
29 Thomas A. Rumer, <strong>The</strong> Wagon Trains of '44,123.
30 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,48.
31 Ibid.,48- 49.
32 Ibid., 50.
33 Ibid.,50.
34 Tricia M. Wagner, It Happened on the Oregon Trail. (Guilford: Morris Book Publishing, LLC, 2005), 48.
35 Weldon Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,51-53.
36 Ibid.,54-55.
37 Ibid.,64-68.
38 Stegner Trails <strong>West</strong>, 40-74.
39 Rau, Surviving the Oregon Trail 1852,73-77.
40 Ibid., 78-79.
41 Ibid., 80-84.
42 Ibid.,101-103.
43 Ibid.,106.
44 Ibid..,119-120.
45 Ibid, 122-124..
46 Richmond, A Nation moving west, 173.
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