But as more white settlers arrived over the Oregon Trail, the newcomers passed discriminatory laws to keep blacks out. Long before Oregon became a state, black people were in the Far West.

During the workweek, Stocks is executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a group that documents and disseminates the African American history of a state that’s 87 percent white. On weekends ...

In modern games like Fallout, players expect random encounters when they're charting a course through the map, a feature ... of eastern white settlers' The Oregon Trail was created as a teaching ...

Gameloft The iconic video game “The Oregon Trail” is back with a new version—and a more nuanced approach to the story of white settlers traveling across the American West in 1848.