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Life on the Overland Trail
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Let’s Go West Aboard A Wagon Train Review
• How many miles did they they travel to reach Oregon?
• How many miles did they travel a day?
• What were the major hazards that the pioneers faced during their journey west?
• 1 out of _____ died enroute
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Let’s Go West Aboard a Wagon Train Review – cont.
• What were the 3 major jumping-off spots?
• Where did the majority of the pioneers come from?
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The Overland Trail
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Why did they go West?• Prolonged period of hard times – Panic of 1837
• Propaganda
• Free Land
• Mild Climate
Later:• Gold
• Religious Persecution – Mormons
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Oregon Trail
• Over 300,000 traveled West between 1840–1870
• First covered wagon that completed trip to Oregon was in 1836 – Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
• By 1843 “Great Migration West” began – Ended in 1869 when Transcontinental railroad was
completed
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The most common means of transportation: Conestoga Wagon
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Photograph of actual covered wagon probably used during Civil War
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The Overland Trail
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Jumping-off spots
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Missouri River
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Crossing the Platte River
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Chimney Rock, Nebraska, a prominent landmark on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails
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Church Butte on the Oregon - Mormon Trail near Ft. Bridger
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Rocky Mountains
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The City of Rocks in Southwestern Idaho where the California and Salt Lake Trails
joined
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Forty-Mile Desert – California
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End of the Trail
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From the images of the trails that you have seen, why would
accidents be the number one cause of death on the trail?
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Considering that 1 out of 10 pioneers died along the trail, why did they continue to travel west in
such large numbers?