Oregon+Trail

Oregon Trail
• The Oregon Trail is 2,170 miles long. • More than 50,000 pioneers went west a long the Oregon trial. • Sometimes it took a pioneer a 25 years span to move as far west as they could. • Many people who set of on this long journey got diseases. (Here are a few Head and Body Lice, Malaria, scurvy, and Cholera.) • Weather made it very hard to move along the Oregon Trail. (Here are problems that weather caused pioneers mud, hail, hard rains, lighting-thunder, dust, wind, and snow. • Transportation was difficult for pioneers because the only transportation they had was by wagon and if they had to fit their family in it and they had to try to fit most of their belongs. • Wagons were about 4 feet wide and 12 feet long, with 4 wooden wheels, and a whit piece of canvas cloth that covered the top. • Here are a few easy foods that pioneers would cook on their long journey Salt-Rising Bread, Raspberry-Vinegar Lemonade, and Strawberry Ice Cream. • There were many common mistakes that the pioneers seemed to face. Such as noting having enough experience driving a wagon which lead to accidents; which lead to broken bones or sometimes death. • Many pioneers died along the Oregon Trail. The one a family member died the family would take time to make a proper burial ground for them. Till this day their graves still stand lining the trail all the way from Independence to Oregon City. []