These early settlers wrote letters home describing Oregon as a "pioneer's paradise." The weather was always sunny, they claimed. Disease was unknown. Trees grew as thick as hairs on a dog's back. And farms were free for the taking. One man even joked that "pigs are running about under the great acorn trees, round and fat, and already cooked, with knives and forks sticking in them so you can cut off a slice whenever you are hungry."
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Pioneers mostly used animals as their main means of travel on the Oregon Trail. They stopped to rest at Fort Walla Walla in the 1840s.
Because they were first there before anyone else.
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the Oregon trail
They were called Covered Wagons.
The Oregon Trail is the route that pioneers used to travel to Oregon.
The pioneers arrived in the oregon territory in september or october. It took 6 months to get to the oregon teritory
The survival rate of pioneers on the Oregon Trail was around 95.
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The pioneers reached their destination, oregon city in the 1870s and started in 1843. The pioneers suffered death, starvation, disease.
Pioneers wanted to go to Oregon to get free farmland, adventure, and better living conditions
a route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory
Yes, pioneers would have needed rope.