| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Web Site Review

The Oregon Trail<http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html>. Created and maintained by Michael Trinklein and Steve Boettcher, Idaho State University. Reviewed April 1–13, 2001.

The Oregon Trail is the companion Web site for a documentary of the same title that aired nationally on PBS in 1995. Both are the work of Michael Trinklein, professor of mass communications, and Steve Boettcher, photographer. The site's home page displays an attractively simple and easily navigated map of main subject headings—"All about the Trail," "Historic Sites on the Trail," "Fantastic Facts about the Oregon Trail," "Trail Archive," and (inevitably) "Shop the Oregon Trail"—leading to descriptive and interpretive material, video clips of interviews with historians, 3608 panoramic views of historic sites, full texts of diaries and journals, and several hundred links. The site is extremely popular, reportedly receiving a hundred thousand hits per month and ranking on several lists of the top history Web sites. Despite the enthusiasm, however, the historical content of The Oregon Trail is rather modest, and above all the site seems dedicated to the sale of Trinklein and Boettcher's videos, books, and other products. . . .

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