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Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman is a London-based author and historian. Her most recent book is Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.

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oregon trail, land, reckoning with the west, between 1840 and 1869 500000 emigrants traveled west on the oregon trail, the route stretched from independence missouri to oregon city, western idaho

Tracing the Storied—and Tragic—Oregon Trail

Uncovering a chain of destruction that culminated in the tragic killing of 19th-century missionary Narcissa Whitman, the first white woman to complete the overland journey west.