Oregon country and trail

Oregon country was mainly an American term referring to a disputed ownership region of the Pacific Northwest of North America.

So originally, Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States had claimed the Oregon Territory, (a piece of land that stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, and it had the areas of present-day Oregon, Washington, and most of British Columbia.) but in 1819, due to the Transcontinental Treaty, Spain actually ceded its claims to the United States!

The Oregon Trail was a pathway to the west. This very hard journey began around 1843 when more than 50,000 pioneers went west in a 25 year span. The path they took went from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. It was the longest overland trail in North America.