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Oregon Trail: Wagon Tracks West

For the Applegates and their fellow travelers, the Oregon Trail promised a golden ticket to the land of milk and honey. The reality, however, proved to be far grimmer.

MORMON PIONEERS Martin Company: Mormon Pioneers Used Handcarts to Trek to Salt Lake City Some 150 people from the Martin Company of handcart-pushing Mormon emigrants died during the 1856 trek to Salt Lake City.				OKLAHOMA'S UNASSIGNED LANDS When the Bugle Sounded: Stampede for Oklahoma's Unassigned Lands Wild as a gold rush, the stampede for Oklahoma's Unassigned Lands was a dream come true for some, a heartbreaking nightmare for others. They were the good and the bad, the tough and the weak, who raced for their 160-acre parcels on a spring day in 1889.

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH Klondike Gold Rush Known as 'Lying George' for his many false strikes, George Washington Carmack and two Indian friends found a real nugget in 1896 that set off a fabled gold rush in Canada.				CHINESE IMMIGRANTS Chinese Immigrants on America's Western Frontier Immigrants from China poured into gold-rich California in 1852 and kept on coming, mostly working as laborers who seemingly would do everything that Anglos wouldn't or couldn't do.

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