Oregon Trail Days Parade will return from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on July 12 on 10th Street in Gering, preceded by the annual ...

In the autumn of 1997, I fired up my school computer and set out across the United States. I loaded my covered wagon, harnessed my video-game-oxen and followed a 2,000-mile (3,219km) route ...

But even uberfans sporting “You have died of dysentery” T-shirts might not realize “Oregon Trail” was created by a trio of computer geeks who pioneered the simulation computer game.

Minnesota-made ‘Oregon Trail’ game being adapted into a movie Local computer geeks created the beloved simulation of crossing the American frontier. Now Apple’s bringing it to the big screen.

Grab your wagons and oxen, and get ready to ford a river: A movie adaptation of the popular grade school computer game Oregon Trail is in development at Apple. The studio landed the film pitch ...

Before Highway 26, covered wagons made the trip over much more rugged terrain on the last overland section of the Oregon Trail.

The trail goes by the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka and about 30 miles northwest leads to St Mary’s Mission and Oregon Trail Nature Park. The Santa Fe Trail is is about 30 miles south of ...

The area is known as a key portion of the California, Oregon and Santa Fe Trail. Weeks said keeping a wagon at the intersection in old Westport will preserve the neighborhood’s history.

But understanding the wagon’s significance to Kansas City and Westport — a provisions stop for the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails — Weeks also plans to immediately replace the wagon ...

Covered wagons and wagon trains are a lasting symbol of America’s expansion west from the 1820s through the 1860s, along the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails, all of which started in ...