A bit of useless information for you, Stan Laurel was born in the very county I live in now - in fact there is a Laurel and Hardy museum in the town of Ulverston where he was born.
In 1843, the first wagon train with over 1000 men, women and children climbed into over 100 wagons and steered their horses West out of the small town of Elm, Missouri and headed to Oregon. :cowb::whip: