FAMOUS AMERICAN FORT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 12

FAMOUS AMERICAN FORT.

OREGON TRAIL SITE PRESERVED

According to the Portland Evening ni*i n- ( . M T'“ no) of April n > the site of old Tort Kearney, which during the frontier days served as a bottleneck through nlach migration flowed over the plains to. the great Oregon country, is to be pre4"ato d park mCrlenn hi6tory “ a For almost 30 years this old fort a - s a bulwark of protection to the * nugratioii over the Oregon trail—the trail which was the war path of the Indian, the trad trapper, fur trader and exphmer, the highway of Oregon’ U ashiiigton Mormon emigrations and tho Cold Bush of 1849 ’ From 1&48 until 1871,‘when it was abandoned..those stalwart men who garmf'/lm .- 10 protected the pioneers on their way to the coast; ami it was this successful migration that secured for the United States the present States .of Oregon. Washingon, and Idaho Ihen came the Union Pacific railwav aml the picturesque Oregon trail, havin'' Tl^‘ C< • 't® '.’"‘I 1 ’ 080 - hccaihc weed-grown” llic tort that was formerly the last citadel of civilisation on the westward journey n!so was abandoned* Then the Fort Kearney Memorial Association was formed to purchase the 40 acres that comprised the old parade grounds, the site of the historic fort and tlie earthwork entrenchments. Now, a resolution before the Legislature, presents the site to the State for use as a State historical park.