Editing Oregon Trail (section)

===Arts, entertainment, and media===
The western expansion, and the Oregon Trail in particular, inspired numerous creative works about the settlers' experiences.

====Commemorative coin====
The [[Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar]] was coined to commemorate the route. Issued intermittently between 1926 and 1939, 202,928 were sold to the public. With 131,050 minted in 1926, that year's issue remains readily available for collectors.

====Music====
The Oregon Trail has featured in various songs, especially in [[western music (North America)|western music]] genres.

"The Oregon Trail" is a song written by [[Peter DeRose]] and [[Billy Hill (songwriter)|Billy Hill]], recorded by [[singing cowboy]] artist [[Tex Ritter]] in 1935, and by Australian country musician [[Tex Morton]] in 1936.

[[Woody Guthrie]] wrote and recorded a song entitled "Oregon Trail" while traveling in the region in 1941. It was the opening track in his ''[[Columbia River Collection]]'' album.

====Games====
The story of the Oregon Trail inspired the educational video game series ''[[The Oregon Trail (series)|The Oregon Trail]]'', which became widely popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.

In 2014, a musical named ''[[The Trail to Oregon!]]'', based on ''The Oregon Trail'' game, with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and a book by Jeff Blim, Nick Lang and Matt Lang was performed in Chicago and later posted to YouTube by [[StarKid Productions]].<ref>{{cite web |title='The Trail to Oregon' musical review: A new kind of Starkid show |url=https://www.hypable.com/starkids-trail-to-oregon-musical-review/ |website=Hypable |access-date=May 22, 2020 |date=July 14, 2014}}</ref>

====Television====
''[[The Oregon Trail (TV series)|The Oregon Trail]]'' was a television series that ran from September 22 through October 26, 1977, on NBC. The show stars [[Rod Taylor]], Tony Becker, Darleen Carr, [[Charles Napier (actor)|Charles Napier]], and Ken Swofford. Although the show was canceled after six episodes, the remaining seven episodes were later aired on [[BBC 2]] in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.tv.com/the-oregon-trail/show/3275/summary.html |title = The Oregon Trail |publisher = CBS Interactive |access-date = January 11, 2013 |archive-date = June 29, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629013729/http://www.tv.com/the-oregon-trail/show/3275/summary.html |url-status = dead }}</ref> the entire series was shown in the UK on BBC1, from November 1977 to January 1978, and on April 13, 2010, [[Timeless Media Group]] (TMG) released in the USA the entire show on six DVDs, running 750 minutes. The set includes 14 original episodes, including the feature-length pilot and the six episodes that did not air on NBC.<ref>{{cite web |first = David |last = Lambert |title = The Oregon Trail – The '70s NBC Show Starring Rod Taylor Comes to DVD with Unaired Episodes |url = http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Oregon-Trail-The-Complete-Series/13459 |website = TV Shows on DVD |date = March 12, 2010 |access-date = April 20, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150427111342/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Oregon-Trail-The-Complete-Series/13459 |archive-date = April 27, 2015}}</ref>

The episode of ''[[Teen Titans Go!]]'' titled "Oregon Trail" parodies expeditions that took place on the Oregon Trail, as well as the 1985 video game ''[[The Oregon Trail (1985 video game)|The Oregon Trail]]''.

====Film====
The 1930 [[Western (genre)|Western]] film ''[[The Big Trail]]'' featured [[John Wayne]] in his first starring role as a [[fur trade|fur trapper]] leading a large [[wagon train]] of settlers across the Oregon Trail.

The 1967 film ''[[The Way West (film)|The Way West]]'', starring [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Robert Mitchum]], and [[Richard Widmark]], was based on the [[The Way West|novel of the same name]] by [[A. B. Guthrie, Jr.]] It follows a wagon train of settlers as they make their way from Missouri to Oregon in 1843.

The animated film ''[[Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary]]'' portrays the expedition of a dozen wagons to Oregon, part of which was the young [[Calamity Jane]].