#virtualoregontrail

This is the story of my Great-Great Grandfather's Oregon Trail experience.

James Miller Allen (1821-1887) was a young man of 23 with a wife and a young son when he decided to travel to Oregon with his wife's family in 1845. This #virtualoregontrail project will use diaries and other sources to recreate his journey.

Introduction to the #virtualoregontrail project
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/02/virtualoregontrail.html

Bibliography
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/02/virtualoregontrail-bibliography.html

The Reasons They Went West
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/02/virtualoregontrail-reasons-they-went.html

Gearing Up for the Journey
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/02/virtualoregontrail-gearing-up-for.html

Captain James B. Riggs and his Family
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/03/virtualoregontrail-captain-james-b.html

Saying Goodbye
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/03/virtualoregontrail-saying-goodbye.html

The Military Immigrant Train
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/04/virtualoregontrail-military-immigrant.html

April 16, 1845
"Got under Way..."
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/04/virtualoregontrail-april-16-1845-got.html

May 2-8, 1845
66 wagons, 98 men, 185 shooting-irons of all kinds...
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/05/virtualoregontrail-may-2-8-1845-66.html

May 9-15, 1845
Romance on the trail - A Wedding
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/05/virtualoregontrail-may-9-15-1845.html

May 16-22, 1845
...the shadows of departed joys
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/05/virtualoregontrail-may-16-22-1845.html

May 23-29, 1845
Slowed by heavy rains
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/05/virtualoregontrail-may-23-29-1845.html

May 30 - June 5, 1845
Buffalo
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/05/virtualoregontrail-may-30-june-5-1845.html

June 6-12, 1845
Camping and Cattle
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/06/virtualoregontrail-june-6-12-1845.html

June 13-19, 1845
The Chimney & Scott's Bluffs
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/06/virtualoregontrail-june-13-19-1845.html

June 20-26, 1845
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/06/virtualoregontrail-june-20-26-1845-fort.html

June 27 - July 3, 1845
"when men get mulish, they sometimes make asses of themselves."
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/06/virtualoregontrail-june-27-july-3-1845.html

July 4-10, 1845
Sweetwater River, Devil's Gate and Independence Rock
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/07/virtualoregontrail-july-4-10-1845.html

July 11-17, 1845
A vote was taken to try a shortcut to Fort Hall
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/07/virtualoregontrail-july-11-17-1845-vote.html

July 18-24, 1845
"Marched up a hill and then marched down again."
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/07/virtualoregontrail-july-18-24-1845.html

July 25-31, 1845
Soda Springs and Fort Hall
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/07/virtualoregontrail-july-25-31-1845-soda.html

August 1-7, 1845
Americal Falls and the Snake River
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/08/virtualoregontrail-august-1-7-1845.html

August 8-14, 1845
Salmon and the Walla Walla Indian threat
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/08/virtualoregontrail-august-8-14-1845.html

August 15-21, 1845
Hot Springs, a child is born, and "How do?"
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/08/virtualoregontrail-august-15-21-1845.html

August 22-28, 1845
Riggs elected Captain and we vote to follow Meeks
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/08/virtualoregontrail-august-22-28-1845.html

August 29 - September 4, 1845
Meek has changed his route
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/08/virtualoregontrail-august-29-september.html

September 5-11, 1845
Following Meek across the barrens
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/09/virtualoregontrail-september-5-11-1845.html

September 12-18, 1845
In search of water
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/09/virtualoregontrail-september-12-18-1845.html

September 19-25, 1845
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/09/virtualoregontrail-september-19-25-1845.html

The end of the journey
https://ordinaryancestors.blogspot.com/2018/09/virtualoregontrail-survivors-reach.html