Native Americans showed trails to a man named Strong Smith. Strong Smithgot in a fight with a bear he lost part of his scalp and his ear. A friend of Smiths sowed his ear back on. The trails became short cuts or a pass.Some facts are:some people went to Oregon for freedom of religion, the first people to go to Oregon were ministers, and they tried to convert indians to Cristianity last fact: Indians did not want the settlers to come. The great migration over the Oregon trail began in 1843. In early spring,pioneers gathered independence,Missouri,to load their wagons for the six-month journey. They eventually crossed the Continental Divide,whitch includes the crest of the Rocky Mountains.
