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Native & African Americans on the Oregon Trail


Introduction to the Trail

Trading Posts and Forts Along the Oregon Trail

First Encounters

Fort Laramie

Grattan Massacre

Massacre Rocks Incident

Bear River Massacre

Little Thunder

1855 : U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre

Gratten Massacre~Another Article

Story date: 18 Aug 1854

Added by: bgill

Massacre at Blue Water Creek

Crazy Horse

General Patrick Edward Connor

Bear Hunter

AFRICAN AMERICANS AS SETTLERS OF THE OLD WEST

JAMES BECKWOURTH

Beckwourth the Mountain Man

Beckwourth's Life with the Crow

Alvin A. Coffey

Slavery in Oregon

Reuben Shipley

Louis A. Southworth

The Lynching of Alonso Tucker 1906