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  • The first expeditions
  • The father of the Santa Fe Trail
  • Susan Shelby Magoffin: A Woman on the Santa Fe Trail
  • Near death on the Cimarron Cutoff
  • A bustling trade
  • Danger on the trail
  • The Oregon Trail
  • The Great Migration
  • The routes west
  • On to Oregon
  • The California branch
  • Stocking a wagon
  • The Donner Party
  • Indians on the trail
  • Death on the trail

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