On The Oregon Trail By David Dary

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In the essay, “On the Oregon Trail” by David Dary explains the knowledge of the emigrants that took place in the Oregon Trail during the 1846 and how they written their own recollections to write more than twelve letters while traveling that had survived and include parts of information on them which six of the emigrants stored less journals. Dary wraps up how the emigrants went on a journey with the nine wagons that belongs to the Reed and Donner families in Illinois and what they have been through when they travel miles away to get to California during 1846 to 1948. Dary also focus on the participation and journey of Lansford Hastings and Edwin Bryant who isn’t a doctor from a camp, but had two friends that are going to California which he also handles some of the emigrants in his company to join his party, but the emigrants had some difficulties on following Hastings which the journey didn’t go so well. The diaries had many events that were written, but it occurred.
From the start Bryant was headed for California along with William H. Russell and some other men in the company were unhappy with the slow step of the journey. Bryant party’s was pressured quickly that the journey became more challenging. To solve the problem is that later he calculated the distances of the Independence to the Sutter’s Fort by the direction he’s traveling, but Bryant also shipped some letters to the emigrant friends recommending them to not take the same direction about eighty wagons of the emigrants positioned from Fort Bridger to Hasting’s direction. The eighty-seven of the emigrants was in the Donner company discussing if they should follow Hastings cutoff.

Hastings wrote a letter to the final emigrants that they had to travel during th...

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...that they’re all dead also Ms. Donner was manipulated from an unknown person, but the eighty-nine of the emigrants that went with Hastings cutoff forty -five of them continue to live.

The Donner party was only a page on the history of the Oregon Trail, but the importance was the reality of the 1,200 emigrants that got to Oregon and the other 1,400 got to California safely, but the diaries had something to do with everything it had many events which did happen if someone was going to die the diaries says everything it’s going to happen in any day. Edwin Bryant supported so much for the emigrants for them to get to California in a trail that wasn’t even difficult. The emigrants had a difficult journey during 1840s. Nothing didn’t come out right how they plan it would, but at least some of them survived and went to California even though the rest got to Oregon.

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