Joseph Meek and Robert Newell knew the landscape of the West by 1840, since both had been working beaver streams throughout the Rockies and beyond for more than a dozen years. They would make their own history by taking the first wagons to Oregon late that fall, using vehicles that had been discarded by other travelers to the Pacific Northwest. Earlier that year Joel P. Walker, a man who had helped to pioneer the Santa Fe Trail, set off from Fort Osage for Oregon Country with his wife and fi
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