Oregon Trail traces homesteaders' path

Sunday, March 24, 2002

NYSSA, Ore. -- Wagons carved such deep ruts in some dusty hills on the Oregon Trail that nothing will grow there again. The parallel path of the wheels stretch for miles in those spots, unprotected from eastern Oregon's wild winds.

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