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Rivers were usually high with the melting snow water and Spring rains. They had to leave in early spring to make it across the plains and to miss the fall mountain snows. It took at least 6 months to get to the west. Many lost everything in the flooded rivers. Even today these rivers still reach flood stage imagine being in a wagon trying to cross one.

The Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail both started in Independence, Missouri.

Yes there was cannibalism on the organ trail. One group who resorted to it was the Donner Party

carved wood

The Price for Items in the shop is the following: Oxen-20.00 Sets of Clothing-10.00 Boxes of Bullets(20/box)-2.00 Spare Wagon Wheels-10.00 Spare Wagon Axles-10.00 Spare Wagon Tongues-10.00 Pounds of Food-.20

The end of the trail on Oregon was at Oregon City, on the river south of Portland. Emigrants loaded their belongings onto rafts for the trip down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean after the trail ended at the Dalles.

The Oregon Trail travelers would read, write in a journal, and sometimes they would sing or play music.

They parked it in a parking lot.

rest and worship (i think)

Montana

The Oregon ended in many places. It ended in Salt Lake City,UT , and Sameremto,CA. The Oregon ended in many places. It ended in Salt Lake City,UT , and Sameremto,CA.

There weren't any roads to Oregon at the time.

There really wasn't any set campgrounds on the trails west because you were never quite sure how far you were going to get in a given day. So you just stopped when you needed to start making camp.

Beacuse it went to Oregon. But many trails branched off to other places.

they left on 1850

Two Missionaries named: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.

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.

They shot it before it bit anyone or anything else and could spread the disease.

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They chose the Oregon trail because of the free farm land ,adventure,gold rush and the taxes where too high for them to pay.

From 1812 to 1840, the British, through the HBC, had nearly complete control of the Pacific Northwest and the western half of the Oregon Trail. In theory, the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, restored possession of Oregon territory to the United States.

Yes, the Oregon Trail went through Oregon.

One reason a family might take the Oregon Trail might be to seek and find unclaimed to expand their land.Hope I helped!! :) (edited)