[or-roots] How did they get here? A transportation querry

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting dgoodma02 at comcast.net:

> My mother (Cora Belle Dye) was born in Missouri (near or in Joplin) in
> 1895
> and was married in Oregon abt 1920,(I was born In 1928). Also my
> father(Duane Cecil Goodman) was born in 1897 in Lyons Oregon.  My
> Grandfather (Prince W. Goodman) was born in 1876 in Linn Co. Oregon. My
> grandmother Goodman (Corabelle McLane) was also born Linn Co Oregon in
> 1878.  OK, The question is--How did they travel out to the West?  Did
> the Railroads extend to the Oregon Washington (Oregon Territory) during
> that time?  Or did they most likely come most of the way on the Oregon
> Trail by Wagon?  It appears to me that my Father's family was out in
> Oregon considerably earlier than the Dyes.
> I know I"m asking for an educated guess..
> Any Ideas?
> Thanks,
>  Bob
> 
> --
> Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
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Bob;
Have you tried the lists of people on the wagon trains?  I'm sure I saw some 
Goodmans on at least one list. I noticed because when I was growing up on
the Oregon coast, there were some Goodmans in Waldport, Or.  I understand
they came over on some of the wagon trains.

Dorothy Webb
kat1928 at integrity.com