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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 [[novel of the same name|The Way West]] 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]].