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Crime was low on the Oregon Trail. There were very few documented cases of robbery or murder. You had to be able to trust other people in your wagon trail for survival. But there was some robbery.

Source: Robert L. Munkres, "Crime on the Oregon Trail 1838-18 The Tombstone Epitaph, March, 1995.

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