Apparently a lot of pioneers also passed over maybe the most important landmark on the Oregon Trail without seeing it. The South Pass is a 20-mile-wide smooth spot over the Continental Divide, at ...

The Oregon Trail was estimated to be about 2,170 miles long. Here's how many people traveled it between 1841 and 1884 to settle out west. ... He discovered the South Pass, ...

The group had inadvertently discovered South Pass and crossed the Continental Divide, unveiling a crossing that would allow hundreds of thousands of emigrants to reach the Pacific Ocean during the ...