Oregon+Trail+MG09

__REASONS FOR GOING WEST:__ __SUPPLIES:__ * flour, sugar, bacon, coffee beans, lard, spices, dried fruit, beans, rice, and perhaps even a keg of pickles __ABOUT THE TRAIL:__ *Unloaded wagons along the Missouri river  * most travelers began in Independence, Missouri __LANDMARKS__ : __NATIVE AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS:__ Cheyenne and Pawnee. The emigrants offered clothes, tobacco or rifles, in exchange for Native American horses or food. Accidental deaths: Injuries, maimings, and death were caused by drownings, wagon accidents (typically being run over by a wagon), accidental shootings, and animal handling. Fatigue caused carelessness and carelessness led to these and other accidents.
 * rich soil
 * free land
 * less population
 * wagon, horses or oxen, shoes for animal, rope, brake chains, a wagon jack, extra axles and tongues, wheel parts, axes, saws, hammers, knives, and a sturdy shovel, and cooking utensils
 *  follows the Platte River to its headwaters; and then crosses the mountains. In southern Idaho, the California Trail splits off (until this point, the Oregon Trail and the California Trail are one in the same). The Oregon Trail then follows the Snake River until it reached the Columbia--which flows into the Pacific.
 * buffalo blocked the ways of the peopl traveling the trail-- took hours to get through them
 * Soda Springs- idaho... bubbling water
 * Fort Hall-- now near Pocatello, Idaho...it was abandoned and emigrants continued to camp there.
 * American Falls-- noisy falls, near snake river
 * Three Island Crossing- three island iused to get across snake river
 * Farewell Bend- where you get away from the snake river.. start following columbia river

__Doctors and Disease:__
-the Oregon Trail emigrants had no real understanding of the nature of disease. -Children were at risk from illnesses such as scarlet fever and diptheria which are all but forgotten in the United States today. Tuberculosis, known as "consumption" for the way it slowly wore down its victims over the course of many years, was so common that a deep, hacking cough was almost a badge of old age, like wrinkles or gray hair. Malaria was such a major barrier to settlers along the upper Mississippi that some medical experts of the day declared that parts of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri would probably never be permanently settled. Cholera killed more emigrants than anything else. In a bad year, some wagon trains lost two-thirds of their people.