Oregon Trail

Yes, definitely. Cows were either being herded to market by cowboys, or being used as oxen for the pioneers taking their covered wagons to their different destinations in hopes and dreams of settling some land.

1830

food and tools

Oxen cost $25.00.

The first to lead a wagon train into Oregon were Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and about 20 others. There they set up the Whitman Mission, an area that became a stopping point for many wagon trains on their way to Oregon City.

The trips by the pioneers was long and hard. They faced flooding rivers, snowing mountains, high steep passes, disease, miles of nothing, and death. One diary I read was from a woman who had six children, had a baby on the trail, her husband died, and lost their wagon over a cliff. She and the children walked to Oregon the final leg of their trip. They were starving and in rags when they were found. This is just one family, but it was a story that took place over and over.

Sally, may, lora, sarah, john, bob, frank, joe

People back then went on the Oregon trail to start new lives. They had a 2,000 mile journey to Oregon. They WALKED the whole way even though it was long and dangerous. Many families died because of diseases, lack of food and water, and their were even some Indian attacks. They still traveled because there were good opportunities there.

The average time for a wagon train to reach Oregon was five to six month.

they were homeless

Around April, it took six months to make the journey and they didn't want to be out in the winter. Also they stared to leave for the west and were getting curious around 1843

this is vj persaud but i just learnt this there was many aniimal carcasses left behind there was many times they had contaminated water and there was extreme weather

Traveling afoot, many pioneers spread out across America. Others rode mules, horses, or bought a wagon and joined up with a wagon train. Back then, the Cadillac of wagons was the Conestoga wagon.

flour, yeast (for bread) pots, pans, bowls clothes(bonnets, overalls, bandannas, flannel shirts) wagons oxen guns, gunpowder knives handcarts.

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Traveling for 5-6 months wasn't easy, especially when you could only bring a few things. A travelling family would have to provide themselves with necessary supplies to survive including:

•800 Pounds Flour 200 Pounds Sugar

25 Pounds Salt & Pepper

200 Pounds Beans

700 Pounds Bacon

100 Pounds Dried Fruit

75 Pounds Coffee

This is for a family of four for 6 months • Clothing items, like shirts, pants, socks, jackets and coats, shoes, hats, underclothes, etc. •Hunting supplies, including pistols, rifles, gunpowder, bullets, etc. •Cooking supplies, (these items were always limited) like pots, pans, silverware, knives, plates and bowls. •Medicine, and other supplies for curing illnesses and wounds. •Finally, the all important Wagon.

Rifles, pistols, gunpowder, bullets, cooking utensils such as pots and pans, bonnets, shoes, socks, usually two changes of clothes for each person, petticoats and some underclothes, flour, bacon, sugar, salt, coffee, dried fruit, spices, dried pinto beans, some grain for your animals, basic herbs and poultices, silverware, wagon, extra wagon parts such as axles and wheels, tools like shovels and forks, water barrels, fabric, needles, scissors, tobacco, lantern, oil, coils of rope, blankets and pillows.

Jon paul george ben Jane Beth annabelle Mary Laura joe bill

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Independence/Kansas City, Missouri is the generally accepted starting point.

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.