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The Barlow Road and the Columbia River Route
Compare the perilous final descent down the Columbia River Gorge with Sam Barlow's overland wagon road around Mount Hood.
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Life and Journey on the Oregon Trail
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Examine the motivations, preparations, daily experiences, and geographic routes of pioneers traveling along the Oregon Trail in the 1840s.
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4.7Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain the interactions between the Pacific Northwest physical systems and human systems, with a focus on Native Americans in that region.
4.12Oregon Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain how diverse individuals, groups (including socioeconomic differences, ethnic groups, and social groups and including individuals who are American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian or Americans of African, Asian, Pacific Island, Chicano, Latino, or Middle Eastern descent, religious groups), and other traditionally marginalized groups (women, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, and individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), circumstances and events influenced the early growth and changes in Oregon (including, but not limited to fur trappers, traders, Lewis and Clark, pioneers and westward movement).