Tens of thousands of people organized at Independence Square in Independence, Missouri, to follow the Oregon Trail in the 19th century.
Within sight of the present downtown district, people bought and sold mules and oxen, and they traded for wagons and supplies in anticipation of a 2,000-mile cross-country journey that would take them to new homes they would carve out of the Pacific Northwest.
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