Anyone seeking additional information about the Oregon Trail might try emailing the museum system. This site has an email for questions, I know they have historian contacts. The museum in Baker City, Oregon is sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management I believe, it is awesome!! Arrayed along Interstate 84 in Oregon, which follows the route of the Oregon Trail, there are five museums to help visitors understand the past and present of our state. All of them address the Oregon Trail and how it changed the land forever, but several of them go beyond that chapter of history to examine the natural history of the area, the Indians who dominated the land for thousands of years, and the more recent past of buckaroos and World War Two internment camps. http://www.teleport.com/~eotic/5centers.html Laura