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//Accidental Deaths-// The emigrant wagons didn't have any safety features. If someone fell under the massive wagon wheels, death was instant. Many lost their lives this way. Most often, the victims were children. Great thunderstorms took their toll. A half-dozen emigrants were killed by lightning strikes; many others were injured by hail the size of apples. Pounding rains were especially difficult for the emigrants because there was no shelter on the open plains and the covered wagons eventually leaked.Perhaps the biggest problem on the Trail was a mysterious and deadly disease--called cholera for which there was no cure. Often, an emigrant would go from healthy to dead in just a few hours. Sometimes they received a proper burial, but often, the sick would be abandoned, in their beds, on the side of the trail. They would die alone. Making matters worse were animals that regularly dug up the dead and scattered the trail with human bones and body parts. http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Hardships.html
 *  Across the Plains-**

//Fort Laramie-//The fort is located along the lower Laramie River near its mouth on the North Platte River, across the river from the modern town of Fort LarThe fort is located along the lower Laramie River near its mouth on the North Platte River, across the river from the modern town of Fort Laramie in Goshen County, Wyoming. The Army took over the fort in the late 1840s largely to supply and protect emigrants along the Emigrant Trail. During the 1850s, relative peaceful relations between the whites and the Native Americans meant that the fort served mainly as a supply post.amie in Goshen County, Wyoming. The Army took over the fort in the late 1840s largely to supply and protect emigrants along the Emigrant Trail. During the 1850s, relative peaceful relations between the whites and the Native Americans meant that the fort served mainly as a supply post. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Laramie 
 * Through the Mountain****s- Fort Laramie Wyoming to Fort Hall Idaho:**

//The scourge of Cholera-//Perhaps the biggest problem on the Trail was a mysterious and deadly disease--called cholera for which there was no cure. Often, an emigrant would go from healthy to dead in just a few hours. Sometimes they received a proper burial, but often, the sick would be abandoned, in their beds, on the side of the trail. They would die alone. Making matters worse were animals that regularly dug up the dead and scattered the trail with human bones and body parts. An infectious disease caught by many emigrants on the Oregon Trail. It spread rapidly because of unsanitary water. There was no cure and most died within a day. There is almost no Cholera in the United States today because of better living conditions, but there have been epidemics recently in poor countries. http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/teacherguide.html#Briefanc [|http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Hardships.html  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera

//Problems of trail overcrowding-//