Category: Following The Oregon Trail 2023

June 26, 2023 Two places visited today, The Stuhr Pioneer Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska and the Fort Kearny Historical Site in Kearney, Nebraska. I’ll start with the Stuhr Museum: There was not much there regarding the Oregon Trail, even though it came through the area. This is a living history museum, and it was…

As I have told many of you, I suspended posting to this travel blog because of poor upload speeds at the Air BnBs where I was saying.  I apologize for the delay.  It was maddening!  I will also be adding on to this blog the places I visited after my journey along the Oregon Trail…

June 25, 2023 I am going on a journey following the Oregon Trail. You may have an interest in my journey, or you may have an ancestral connection to the story. I am roughly following a book that was written by my ancestor, Joel Barnett, titled “A Long Trip in a Prairie Schooner”. If you…