Talk:Westward expansion trails

Westward expansion questions
Any questions about the Trails that were used in the Westward Expansion? HistoryFan2 (talk) 22:22, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

At line six of Oregon trail it reads, "Many believe that without the dog most of the American west would today be part of mexico or Mexico." I have no idea what 'the dog' or 'part of mexico or mexico' means and seems nonsensical having made sense up until this point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.140.147 (talk) 16:37, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to merge-from "Emigrant Trails"

 * re: 2013 proposal to and mess up common historical term without consensus

I am in favor of merging "Emigrant Trails" with this topic, and also for making sure that "Overland Trails" is included in the topic or metadata, as it is a common search term for historians seeking information about the Oregon, California, Mormon, Pony Express, or Santa Fe historic trails. Tvbarn (talk) 15:48, 20 February 2013 (UTC)tvbarn
 * Nom says
 * Westward Expansion Trails should be the article absorbing Emigrant Trails which only cover the northern Emigrant routes, as the former includes that later. Overland Trails can refer to Westward Expansion Trails too. Asiaticus (talk) 20:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Westward Expansion Trails is perhaps some primer title, or even fashionably 'correct' PC-speak for an older term used for over a century. Trails such as the Kittanning Path and Nemocolin's Path have been totally submerged in narrow focus of the ignorant crafters of this page. Until the Ohio Country, the Northwest Territory and such were settled, there were no babies born to push west post the 1840s... two generations of post-Revolutionary staged settlements are being tossed aside and ignored. Similarly, the foreign immigrants landing in ports of Baltimore and Philadelphia (New York and Boston were not big early immigrant destinations) funneled through the gaps of the Allegheny and the Cumberland Narrows, to the Ohio Valley.

Apparent Vandalism
I've removed the following malformatted and uncited line, which appears to be vandalism, from the section on the Oregon Trail:

It is now know as the great Ele road.

This line was added in revisions 555135537 and 555135715, back in May 2013, by a single unregistered user who has made no other contributions: 173.2.83.118. I just wanted to put this on the talk page in case it's an actual fact about the Oregon Trail; in that case, someone please restore it and give a citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Control.valve (talk • contribs) 13:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

More appropriate map?
This map concerns the routes to the California gold fields. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emigrant_trails_-_Various_emigrant_trails_showing_California_gold_fields.svg JonathanPlaster 00:36, 21 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanPlaster (talk • contribs)

Excessive vandalism
I removed additional vandalism that went back as far as May 2019. In doing so, I may have deleted some good edits. I encourage editors who follow this article more closely give my edits and older edits a closer look. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 01:25, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Immigrants, not emigrants! (in- vs. out-migration)
These settlers came to the land, they did not leave it! The author has no understanding of the terms he uses, then he should not use them at all! From the point of view of the countries these settlers had left, they are the emigrants, the out-migrants, but for the country they had come to, they are the incoming, the in-migrants, not the emigrants/out-migrants. 178.203.184.252 (talk) 16:06, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

The recent vandalism was from A SCHOOL IP.
the school was SRK8 NotABlanker (talk) 00:48, 7 April 2023 (UTC)