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Thereafter, migration on the Oregon Trail was an annual event, although the practice of traveling in giant convoys of wagons gave way to many smaller bands of one or two-dozen wagons. The trail was heavily traveled until 1884, when the Union Pacific constructed a railway along the route.
The Trail was the only practicable way for settlers to cross the dangerous mountains. Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah and Idaho would probably not be a part of the United States today were it not for the Oregon Trail.