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Events on Monday 22 May 1843 1
1843Great Emigration sets out on the Oregon TrailAbout a thousand settlers leave Missouri for OregonA wagon train of roughly a thousand emigrants left Elm Grove, Missouri, for the Oregon Country. It was the first large-scale overland migration on the Oregon Trail and opened the route to mass settlement of the Pacific Northwest.