You probably know about the computer game, The Oregon Trail, a game which has you take on the Oregon Trail. But did you know about a game called The Organ Trail? The Organ Trail is a game much like The Oregon Trail, with one big difference; the player is escaping zombies instead of immigrating west. However, no matter what the trail was used for, the Oregon Trail surely helped westward expansion in the 1800’s.
The Oregon Trail is a 2000 mile long wagon route and emigrant trail made by fur trappers and traders from 1811 to 1840. The trail was then only possible on foot or horseback. By 1863, the trail was cleared from Independence, Missouri, to Fort Hall, Idaho. The trail later kept being cleared until Willamette Valley, Oregon. Improved roads, cutouts, and bridges made the trip faster and safer every year. The Oregon Trail had three offshoots: the California, Bozeman, and Mormon trails. The eastern half of the trail spanned future Idaho and Oregon. The western half of the trail spanned part of future Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Modern highways pass through the same course as the Oregon Trail. It was sometimes called “The Highway of Hope”.
The trail was used by about 400,000 settlers, ranchers, farmers, miners, and businessmen in the 1830’s to the late 1860’s. Most of the people who made the trip were between the ages of 12 and 24. About 48,000 used the trail to head to Utah. Gold and silver discoveries in Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana caused an increase on people using the trail. Immigration to California skyrocketed with the 1849 gold rush. About 200,000 people traveled to California between 1849 and 1860. However, it is unknown how many people used the trail to return east.
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... pounds of bacon, 40 pounds of sugar, 10 pounds of coffee, 5 pounds of rice, 15 pounds of dried fruit, 5 pounds of salt, .5 pounds of saleratus (baking soda, baking powder, and leavening mix), 2 pounds of tea, and 15 pounds of beans. The usual daily meal was bacon, beans, coffee, and biscuits or bread. One wagon could carry up to 6 months of food for 4 people. The travelers also hunted antelope, buffalo, hens, trout, elk, bear, duck, geese, salmon, and deer. They traded with Indians at Snake River and Columbia River for salmon and with Indians in Oregon for potatoes. Utensils such as butcher knives, large spoons, spatulas, ladles, Dutch ovens, pots/pans, grills, and spits were used on the trail.
Cooking was done on a campfire. They would use a flint and steel to light the fire. Wood, cow dung, willow, and sagebrush were some of the fuels they used to fuel the fire.
Farmers began to cultivate vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. Document D shows a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880, with men on earlier tractors and over 20-30 horses pulling the tractor along the long and wide fields of wheat. As farmers started to accumilate their goods, they needed to be able to transfer the goods across states, maybe from Illinios to Kansas, or Cheyenne to Ohmaha. Some farmers chose to use cattle trails to transport their goods. Document B demonstrates a good mapping of the major railroads in 1870 and 1890. Although cattle trails weren't used in 1890, this document shows the existent of several cattle trails leading into Chyenne, San Antonio, Kansas City and other towns nearby the named ones in 1870. So, farmers began to transport their goods by railroads, which were publically used in Germany by 1550 and migrated to the United States with the help of Colonel John Stevens in 1826. In 1890, railroads expanded not only from California, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, but up along to Washington, Montana, Michigan, down to New Mexico and Arizona as well. Eastern States such as New Jersey, Tennesse, Virginia and many others were filled with existing railroads prior to 1870, as Colonel John Stevens started out his railroad revolutionzing movement in New Jersey in 1815.
I noticed a few graves of people whom have died of the disease cholera (Document C). Some campers may need to
The transcontinental railroad was a 1,800 mile railroad linking Omaha, Missouri with Sacramento, California. This railroad was built through varying environmental conditions including grassy plains, desserts, and mountains such as the Sierra. The railroad revolutionized transportation in the nineteenth century (Galloway 4). The First Transcontinental Railroad was built in the 1860s in order to connect the Eastern and Western coasts of the United States. In the book The Railroads, statistical data describes that “In 1830, 23 miles of railroad track were being operated in the United States; by 1890 that figure had grown to 166,703 miles, as cities and villages were linked across the lan...
The teepees were made out of logs that are covered with deer or buffalo hide. They kill and skin the animal and then let the hide dry , they then placed the logs in a cone shape and covered them with the animal hide. They also lived in structures called long houses which were made of wood. All of these houses together were called villages. They had to make their houses easy to put up and take down so they could so they could leave to avoid anything that might bring harm to them.
"The Santa Fe Trail Lives On!" Welcome to SFTNet, the latest manifestation of the Santa Fe Trail saga. This service is designed for trail buffs, students, researchers, travelers on the trail--in short, anyone with an interest in historic or contemporary developments along the Santa Fe Trail. What Is The Santa Fe Trail? As many who read this introduction will know, the Santa Fe Trail is an ancient land route of communication between the desert Southwest of what is now the United States and the prairies and plains of central North America. In the Southwest it was also part of a longer route that ran down the Rio Grande into what is now northern Mexico. American Indian peoples used the route to trade the agricultural produce of the Rio Grande Valley and the bounty of the plains, such as jerked buffalo meat and buffalo hides. When the Spanish conquistador Onate came to New Mexico in 1598, he and his soldiers followed this ancient route as they explored the plains and traded with the peoples there. During the next two centuries the Spanish gained an intimate knowledge of the plains and the routes between the Mississippi-Missouri river systems and the Southwest. Then, in 1821, a trader from Missouri, William Becknell, came to Santa Fe along what was to become known as the historical route of the Santa Fe Trail. He opened the Santa Fe Trail as a commercial route between what was then ...
The time of westward expansion was filled of hardships and challenges for the citizens of America. They left their homes at their own will to help make life better for themselves, and would letter recognize how they helped our country expand. The people of the Oregon trail risked their lives to help better their lives and expand and improve the country of America. However, no reward comes without work, and the emigrants of the Oregon Trail definitely had it cut out for them. They faced challenges tougher than anyone elses during the time of westward expansion.The Emigrants of the Oregon trail had the the most difficult time surviving and thriving in the west because of environmental difficulties, illness abundance, and accident occurrence.
Between 1840 and 1950, over fifty-three thousand people travelled the Oregon Trail. Native American exposure to diseases such as smallpox and diphtheria decimated the tribes, and that along with the encroachment of settlers on tribal lands, was the cause of much strife between Native Americans and the incoming Europeans. The Land Donation Law, a government land giveaway allotting three-hindred twenty acres to white males and six-hundred forty to married white couples, gave impetus to the western expansion and the American idea of "Manifest destiny." This promotion of migration and families also allowed America to strentghen its hold on Oregon, in the interests of displacing British claims.
People encountered day-to-day hardships on the Oregon Trail. In the article, it mentions, “Mother’s health was not very good, and she fell victim to the cholera.” And “Willie fell sick and passed away.” explains some physical challenges they faced. This sufferings could affect others in the group, because the diseases were extremely contagious. Also, in the article, it says, “Oh, how we all cried!” This shows the emotional challenges after reaching Fort Walla Walla. They were relieved that they achieved their primary goal, so they sobbed to pour out their depression during the journey. Clearly, people suffered by day-to-day challenges on the Oregon Trail.
...ting trek by land was one to be made by wagon, horseback, or on foot either way the most popular way started in Independence, Missouri and ended in California 2,000 miles and six months later. "Start at 4, travel till the sun gets high, camp till the heat is over. Then start again and travel till dark (Uschan 21)."
They took everything that the natives had in their camp, even pulled the clothes from the two dead men and dressed, same as they had just went through. They must have been heading to the camp because they had bags of furs and beads.
Food was something everybody needed. The Makah ate a lot of fish and still do today. Fish was the main thing they ate. The Makah also ate deer, seal, whale, and more. The Makah ate everything with fish oil even dessert. They loved fish oil so much they had to eat it with everything. The Makah were hunters. They would go out in canoes and catch as much as they could. The Makah ate very little vegetables. They mostly ate meat. The only vegetables they ate were in the spring when the woman would find some plants. They would dry the fish for the winter and other times when it was needed. How they cooked the food was with a cedar wood box. They would make a fire and put coals on the fire. The Makah would put water in the box and add the hot coals. Then they would add the food. They would take out cold coals and put in hot ones. The Makah ate with their hands and ate on cedar mats. The Makah didn’t have any kind of utensils so they just used their hands for everything.
trails, such as the Oregon Trail to the north, the Mormon and Spanish Trail to
In 1848, California has a mere 14,000 residents and by 1849 there were more than 100,000 residents, and three years later the population doubled to 200,000 residents. There were not many women and children that moved west, only five percent of the immigrants. Along with the men, women and children a lot of free and enslaved African- Americans moved out west. Some people took an 18,000 mile trip by taking a boat trip around South America, and then up to the coast of California. While some people did this, many people traveled across the United States to get there.
The route was from the east to west in North America. The route was laid by trappers and traders; however, people only traveled by foot and horseback. In addition, the majority of the people used this route because they wanted to go to the western lands for several reasons. Some were escaping from debts, starting a farm, government encouragement, religious beliefs. However, there were various dangers that people experience on their way to Oregon. Crossing rivers was one of the dangerous obstacles that the settlers had to overcome. Diseases also caused the deaths of various settlers who were travelling on the