The flood also places a major obstacle,…
July 1844 CE
Independence has been the jumping off place for several key emigrant trails, notably both the Santa Fe Trail and one alternative eastern starting branch of the Oregon Trail.
After the Mexican–American War settlement of 1846, the Oregon Trail's start will quickly also become a start of the California Trail and an alternative beginning also for the Mormon Trail: the migration to Utah of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ).