Oregon Trail

They brought Flour, Sugar, Water, Coffee, Bacon, rice, Salt, Beans, Hardtack, lard, A WAGON WITH OXEN, guns

1) To provide a place for travelers to resupply and 2) to provide protection to those travelers and people who had settled in the area.

The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.

Smallpox, flu, colds, cholera, diphtheria ,TB, infections of all sorts, whooping cough, some people probably got sick from the small particles of dust they took in every day for months, pneumonia are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head. There were probably others and many were called by other names in that time. For instance, no one knew of cancer.Also scurvy and malaria were 2 other diseases

Some pioneers would get their drinking water by digging a well or from a spring. If they were traveling they would get the water from a lake or river and then boil it before drinking it. They may have also used barrels to store water to use as needed.

The Oregon Trail was a group of white americans of eurpean decent that voluntarly walked the trail.

The Trail Of Tears was a trail foced to be taken by the Native Americans

Both are hard, long and risky trails and they both travel westbund.

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• White Fir
• vine maple
• red Adler
• kinnikinnik
• bog birch
• deer fern
• Oregon ash
• ocean spray
• Salas
• Oregon grape
• black cottonwood

Some didn't . Life was very hard. At the start the land was flat and everyone was still fresh, but as the trip went along things got harder. They were going 2400 miles across land that was a combination of prairie , mountains, and deserts. Each had their own problems. They faced awful storms, floods, loosing family members and friends to the various diseases and accidents. Some lost everything in mountain passes or in flooded rivers. Most of the women and children walked the entire way. Today the prairie in some places is still pretty much the way they found it with bugs, heat, and winds blowing all day every day. They were brave stubborn people who put everything on a small wagon, left family, and left on a six month trip to a place they only heard about. The one thing it was NOT was boring.

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when they had their wagons they forded the rivers if the rivers were shallow. if the rivers were deeper, they'd either caulk the wagons (try to make them watertight and float them across) or hired ferry services.

They took: * rafts * boats * swam * walked right through (only if it was shallow enough) Most scientists don't even know, they really don't have evidence on what they used!

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rocky mountain oysters

AKA: bull balls

Same way people talk today without the modern words.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Lewis & Clark explored the Oregon territory. Marcus Whitman and his wife and Narcissa were early settlers that were killed by native Americans who blamed them for the measles outbreak.

Whiskey (Strictly for Medicinal purposes), a sharp knife and a pair of tweezers.

gathering fire wood, staking the horses unloading the wagon and loading it the next morning, help adults, looked for dried buffolo manure

Life on the Oregon Trail was very hard for the pioneers and their families. Many of them walked with bare feet over 15 miles a day. They had to survive floods, bad weather, insects, snakes, lack of food, hostile Native Americans and diseases.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

A historical overland route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. The trail was opened in 1842, and by 1845 more than 3,000 migrants had made the arduous journey. After the coming of the railroad, the trail fell into disuse and was finally abandoned in the 1870s. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

They cooked with a Dutch oven or over a fire with a pan. They did not have stoves back then. Also what i did not say before is that a Dutch Oven in a huge ovel iron pot that cooks food in. The most thing that they put in there is stew. The most popular stew in venison stew. Venison is deer meat.

because they were promised free land if they move west and the easiest way west was the Oregon trail the reason they were offered free land was so America would expand westward into the newly purched Louisiana purchase

Wagon trains led by ox and horses and they also walked

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The trail from Nauvoo, Illinios to Salt Lake City, Utah was approximately 1300 miles. The Oregon Trail was around 2100 miles.

1. Repaired and built wagons and furniture
2. Hunted wild animals
3. Traded with others
4. Handled livestock
5. Guarded the wagons at night from possible Indian attacks

The Mormon Pioneer Trail is a 1,300-mile travelled by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1846 to 1868. The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississipi river, passing through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Eastern Utah to Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Mormon pioneer movement began in 1846 when, after having been driven once again by mob violence from their settled home, the Saints decided to establish a new home for the church outside the established boundaries of the United States. The trail was used for more than 20 years, until the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856-1860. Two of the handcart companies, led by James G. Willie and Edward Martin, met disaster on the trail when they departed late and were caught by heavy snowstorms in Wyoming.

Once the Mormons arrived in Salt Lake, some were asked by the Prophet Brigham Young to go settle other places such as Genoa, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Cardston, Alberta, Canada and many other settlements in the territory of Deseret.

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