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Welcome to Emigrant Trails Project |
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Welcome to Emigrant Trails Project |
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As settlers moved from the east to the west in the 1800s, many used wagon trains, a "train" of covered wagons, and went together in groups. Fearing attacks by Native warriors who hated being forced from their ancestral lands, these individual families would band together, believing in safety in numbers. Several cities sprung up where these wagon trains were formed. Most were on a riverport, as many of the settlers from the east got to the starting point by water travel.
The established routes were still not without peril. Many died on the route west. Some from hunger or thirst when their provisions were lost or stolen. Some from the weather, when unexpected temperature drops occurred. And some from attacks. However, enough made it through that we have the tales that they left behind.
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Ainapo Trail
Bellamy Road
Bethlehem Pike
Braddock's Road
Bradshaw Trail
Brownsville Road
Buffalo Trace
California Trail
Cherokee Path
Chilkoot Trail
Cumberland Road
Dalton Trail
El Camino Real
Federal Road
Foote's Crossing Road
Forbes Road
Gaines Trace
Genesee Road
Gila River Trail
Great Indian Warpath
Hana Belt Road
Jones Plummer Trail
Kittanning Path
Lead Mine Trail
Logan Trace
McCulloch's Path
Michigan Road
Minsi Trail
Northwestern Turnpike
Old Connecticut Path
Old Mine Road
Old Mission Trail
Old Plank Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old Sauk Trail
Old York Road
Oregon Trail
Osage Trail
Pedro Mountain Road
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike
Pine Creek Path
Point Douglas to Superior Military Road
Red River Trails
Saginaw Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Seneca Trail
Shawnee Trail
Sheshequin Path
Strasburg Road
Trading Path
Venango Path
Wilderness Road
Yukon Trail
Zane's Trace
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