Applegate Trail

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The Applegate Trail was a 19th-century emigrant wagon route that provided an alternative, supposedly safer path to the Oregon Trail through southern Oregon and northern California.

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Label Occurrences
Applegate Trail canonical 4

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic emigrant trail
wagon road
alternativeTo main Oregon Trail route through the Columbia River
associatedWithEthnicGroup American pioneers
associatedWithEvent Oregon Trail migrations
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endPoint Willamette Valley
surface form: Willamette Valley, Oregon
followsRegion Northern California
surface form: northern California

southern Oregon
hasNameOrigin Applegate family of pioneers
surface form: Applegate family of Oregon pioneers
hasRouteType overland trail
hazardsAvoided Cascades Rapids
surface form: Columbia River rapids

difficult river navigation on the Columbia
heritageStatus recognized historic route
historicalPeriod 19th century
languageOfName English
locatedIn California, United States
surface form: California

Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
United States of America
surface form: United States
namedAfter Charles Applegate
Jesse Applegate
Lindsay Applegate
partOf Oregon Trail
surface form: Oregon Trail system

westward expansion of the United States
purpose provide alternative route to Oregon Trail
provide supposedly safer route to Willamette Valley
startPoint near Fort Hall, Idaho
transportMode horseback
ox-drawn wagons
traverses Cascade Range
Klamath Basin
Rogue Valley
Klamath Mountains
surface form: Siskiyou Mountains

Umpqua Valley
usedFor emigrant wagon travel
overland migration
settlement of Oregon Territory

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Applegate–Lassen Route alternativeName Applegate Trail
Lindsay Applegate notableWork Applegate Trail
Jesse Applegate notableWork Applegate Trail
Jesse Applegate helpedEstablish Applegate Trail