You will need extra boots and food. It also is good to have some spare wagon parts.
Going West is Best
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.
WHAT WAS THE DANGERS PART OF THE OREGON TRAIL?
The Oregon trail never was modernized. Some parts of the freeway system do follow some of the trail. The current freeway system began in the 1950's.
Some of the main reasons people left for Oregon on the Oregon Trail was for free land and a start of a better life.
cholera
The difficult voyage along the Oregon Trail prompted settlers to carry different medical supplies with them in case of an emergency. Some medical supplies used on the Oregon Trail were surgical instruments, liniments, and bandages.
The California Trail, Gila Trail, Mormon Trail and The Old Spanish Trail....
independence rock
back then that was one of the only ways of getting there and supplies that they had to live off of
One of the natural disasters that happened on the Oregon Trail was the heavy rain that mad the plains all muddy.
some people died on the trail