[or-roots] Oregon Trail, or not...

[Heather and Pat]

Hello,
I've been lurking, but enjoy everyone genealogy tales.. You learn a lot about the state history by listening... Anyway since we're mentioning the trail and ruts, (by the way I liked that picture from Baker City... Great learning center there...) I am reminded when I was working on the Diamond Lake Ranger District (it's near Crater lake) of working on a thinning project and finding trail blazes.  Our anthropologist said she would look into what they may have been but I never heard if they were from the Oregon Trail or something different.  (To reassure everyone those trees were not taken and were protected with a buffer zone...)
  If anyone knows the area, HWY 138 east runs through that area, do you know if that was a younger trail then the rush of the 1830 and 40s or about that time frame?  I lived up there for 22 years and I don't ever remember hearing about that sort of stuff.

Heather 

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