<P> In "Western Country", the singer exhorts that, "if I had no horse at all, I'd still be a hauling, far across those Rocky Mountains, goin' away to Oregon ." </P> <P> 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, 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, the entire series was shown in the UK on BBC1, from November 1977 to January 1978, and in 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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