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Vacationers ride in covered wagons across the Nebraska prairie along the route of the Oregon Trail as part of a vacation to simulate the Oregon Trail experience. Near Bayard, Nebraska. | Location: near Bayard, Nebraska, USA. (Photo by James L. Amos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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