In this issue
Updates:
- Photo Contest Award Winners
- Submit Your Volunteer Hours by Sep. 30th
- New Idaho Chapter website
- Chapter Newsletters
Photo by: Darryl Montgomery
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Events:
- Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter Zoom event, September 25
- Third Thursday History with the Southern Trails Chapter
- Santa Fe Trail Celebration at Kansas City's Trailside Center, September 18
- Gateway Chapter Bus Tour of Kansas City Trail Sites Set for October 2
- Partnership for the National Trails System Historic Trails Virtual Workshop, November 1-4
Books & Publications
- New Jim Bridger Book Now Available!
Ongoing:
- OCTA Partners with the Kansas City Royals on a Fundraiser
- Order Fresh Coffee and Help OCTA's Bottom Line
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Announcing the 2021 OCTA Photo Contest Winners
In the social media category:
1st place - Jerry Eichhorst, submission #60, "Climbing Out of Snake River Canyon"
2nd place - Lau Sandor, submission #21, "Platter River Nebraska"
3rd place - Clarence Bennet, submission #05, "True Parting of the Ways"
In the members choice category:
1st place - Jim Hardee, submission #67, "Fort Bridger Sunrise - A Confluence of Cultures on Emigrant Trails"
2nd place - Steffany Palma, submission #70, "Summer's Day at Scotts Bluff"
3rd place - Tim Manolis, submission #66, "Nobles Trail"
We'll post each winner's photo over the next few week's of news letters:
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1st place - Jerry Eichhorst, submission #60, "Climbing Out of Snake River Canyon"
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Time to Report Your Volunteer Hours!!!!
It is again time to turn in your volunteer hours, mileage, expenses paid by you and not reimbursed, time traveling to meeting (including the upcoming Elko convention), research, etc..
To submit them by September 30th, visit our online volunteer hour reporting portal for a simple, fast way to share your hard work with our federal agency partners and budget planners in Congress. Your volunteer hours are matched with appropriations and the Volunteers in Parks program to the financial benefit of our trails. Please report all you have done! It's the most important thing we do!
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New Idaho Chapter Website
After months of delay, the updated Idaho chapter website is now live. It has a fresh modern look and is no longer a hodge-podge repository of stale material. Please check it out. The calendar page will now be able to be kept up to date. Chapter president Jerry Eichhorst encourages you to keep it bookmarked and come join them on future activities. Visit the new website now at http://idahoocta.org/
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Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter Zoom Event
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Time:
1:00 Pacific
2:00 Mountain
3:00 Central
4:00 Eastern
Please join us for a presentation by the national organization's
Emigrant Trails Hall of Fame Committee on the new inductees for 2021.
The inductees were announced at the Awards Dinner at the Elko
convention on September 15.
This event will be a discussion of their lives and legacies, and
their contributions to trail history that OCTA seeks to honor and
preserve:
- George Bush
- LeRoy and Ann Hafen
- Irene Paden
- Levi Scott
- Robert Stuart
Zoom link:
Topic: Colorado-Cherokee Trail Chapter Zoom event
Time: Sep 25, 2021 02:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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Third Thursday History
With the Southern Trails Chapter
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The Southern Trails Chapter is hosting its next Third Thursday History night. The next talk will be on Marie Felicite St. Vrain, who was a mere 16 years of age when she traveled down the Santa Fe Trail with her Uncle Ceran, destined for Bent’s Fort. The year was about 1839. Register to hear her descendent, Christine St. Vrain, present on Marie’s life at the Oregon - California Trail Association’s Southern Trails Chapter’s next Third Thursday History night.
Thursday, September 16th, 5 PM PDT (AZ)/8 PM EDT
Zoom call link: tinyurl.com/SantaFeTrailTraveler
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Join the Trailside Center in Kansas City for Their Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Celebration
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Gateway Chapter Bus Tour of Kansas City Trail Sites Set for October 2
The Gateway Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) is sponsoring a bus tour on Saturday, October 2 in the Kansas City area and will have plenty of room for people from the KC area to join with them on the tour.
OCTA Past President Ross Marshall will be leading the tour as you travel from Kaw Point (the juncture of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers) through the downtown Kansas City area over to Independence and along the Independence Route of the Santa Fe-Oregon-California Trail south to Red Bridge and over to I-35 and back to the downtown area and Kaw Point.
Attached are all the details of how to sign up and pay for your seat on the bus.
We will leave from Kaw Point at 9:30 and return there at about 4:00.
View all trip details here.
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Partnership for the National Trails System
Historic Trails Workshop Registration Now Live
Join the Partnership for their Historic Trails Workshop, November 1-4, 2021. Register at the link here.
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New Jim Bridger Book Now Available!
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Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fr mont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell.
Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time. Read more and learn how to order the book here.
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OCTA Partners with the
Kansas City Royals on Fundraiser
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Whether you live in Kansas City, near Kansas City, or have plans to travel to Kansas City this year, if a Royals baseball game is on your to-do list, your ticket purchase has the potential to help OCTA's bottom line. OCTA is partnering with the Kansas City Royals to make tickets available to a select number of games, with OCTA receiving $5 from every lower level ticket sold and $2 from every upper level ticket sold. Simply visit royals.com/fundraising and enter the promo code "OCTA" to ensure that all tickets sold are credited to us.
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Order Fresh Coffee and Help
OCTA's Bottom Line
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OCTA member Richard Gibson reached out to us with a review of the coffee. He wrote:
"I wanted to say to the group and to the KC ROASTERS that I am thoroughly enjoying my OREGON TRAIL ROAST BLEND COFFEE. It is mellow but full of flavor and is easy to warm back up or drink when cold! Great Idea for whomever came up with this promotion for OCTA! THANKS. I still have another package unopened!"
OCTA Board Member Jean Coupal-Smith added:
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"This is a wonderful brew! I love the rich, bold flavor, even though its medium roast and I usually drink dark roast. I rate it up there at the top with my favorite Starbucks blend of Cafe Verona. It is very smooth."
We concur whole-heartedly with Richard and Jean, though this E-News editor is of the opinion that the Butterfield Bean Medium Roast is slightly better than the wonderful Oregon Trail Medium Roast Blend. We remain excited that KC Coffee Roasters created two specialty coffees with 10% of every purchase being donated to the Oregon-California Trails Association. They are currently featuring Oregon Trail and Butterfield Bean blends. Visit their website at https://www.kccoffeeroasters.com/order-online to order now.
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