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Filming the Oregon Trail

by | May 30, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

During the 19th century around 400,000 people traveled the Oregon and California Trails seeking new opportunities, land, gold. They traveled with friends and family, or left all of them behind and truly struck out on a new life. When the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) received a private donation and the directive to “make a documentary film about hardships on the trail,” I had the opportunity to work on the film with Bob Noll of Boston Productions. So how could we tell this s


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