The flood also places a major obstacle,…

July 1844 CE

The flood also places a major obstacle, a sandbar in front of the Wayne City Landing at Independence, Missouri which is to cause and encourage settlers to go further east to Westport Landing in Kansas City causing significant local economic and cultural impact.

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 ).

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Independence Jackson Missouri United States View →

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Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Mormons, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints View →

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“Manifest Destiny” and American Expansion; 1840-1851 View →

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