SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1971, a trio of Minneapolis educators, using a hulking teletype machine connected to a mainframe miles away, designed the ...

Survival on the Oregon Trail depended on durable, long-lasting food supplies. These staples reveal how pioneers adapted their diets to harsh conditions.

The roughly 2,000-mile Oregon Trail stretched from Missouri to Oregon in the 1800s, including 500 miles in Idaho alone. By 1846, thousands of emigrants “drawn west by cheap land, patriotism or the ...

“I don’t know about you,” said the cowboy in his booming Wyoming voice. “But when I follow these old trails, I can just see the wagons coming up over the hill.” My wife and I were chatting with this ...

When Kevin Driscoll was a kid, he loved playing The Oregon Trail in his school’s computer lab with friends. Driscoll enjoyed the novelty of playing a video game while at school – and the fact that ...