Challenges Of Traveling To California For The California Gold Rush
132 days. 2,200 miles traveling to California for the gold rush. There was a gold rush in California. Some challenges people faced when traveling to California gold rush were the long journey, the lack of resources, and the spread of diseases. One of the challenges that travelers faced was the long journey. “There were wagons of every kind, including well-built covered wagons and simple, open carts. Usually they were pulled by oxen, but some pioneers used mules. Not everyone sat in a wagon or cart. Some rode mules, and some even walked. From Missouri to Utah, the trip was generally uneventful. Several female pioneers wrote that despite the hardships, it was a "perfect pleasure trip.” (Ferne 4) Not everyone got to ride a wagon or a cart. Or
some travelers rode a muscle and some even had to walk. The walkers had to walk through Missouri all the way to Utah. The trip to California was brutal for the sea route. There were tens and thousands of people on one ship. The living quarters were dirty and probably smelt really bad. These are long journey challenges that travelers faced. A second challenge they faced were the lack of resources. “The gold-rushers also bought heaps of supplies, including red flannel shirts, high boots, wide hats, corduroy pants, pots, pans, kettles, cups, knives, forks, spoons, pickaxes, shovels, spades, hoes, axes, hatchets, daggers, Bowie knives, rifles, pistols, inflatable rubber beds, boats, tents, and bottles of medicine to cure every kind of disease. Forty-niners also purchased all types of mining gear, such as dredges, devices to sift and wash gold, ore mills, gadgets that separate gold from rocks using chemicals, and diving suits for collecting gold from stream bottoms. Much of this equipment was too heavy to transport easily, and had to be discarded on the way to the gold fields.” ( Barbara 5) On the California route the gold rushers used lots o supplies on the way there including pots, pans, cooking supplies, inflated rubber beds, boats, and tents. The food resources did not cover the whole trip. They had really lack of resources during the time they were down there for. These challenges travelers face with the lack of resources. The final challenges the travelers faced were the pred of disease. “The jungle route was thought to be the shortest and swiftest. Forty-niners found conditions nearly unbearable on the ships headed for Panama. After reaching land, they crossed the jungle by dugout canoe, then by mule over the mountains to Panama City. The oppressive heat and mosquito-infested swamps were miserable. Many travelers caught malaria, dysentery, typhoid, or cholera and died. Those who survived often waited months for passage on to California. In their desperate state, they fell prey to swindlers, who charged them up to a thousand dollars per ticket. They were crammed into crowded ships without adequate food supplies. Many were sick with fevers. It was common to see at least one body a day lowered overboard.” (Pamela 7) Many diseas passengers going through the jungle route caught were Malaria, Dysentery, Typhoid, or Choter and possibly would of died. Theses These diseas were very harmful if you caught them sometimes you would die. The ones who survive waited months and months on to California Which they would be lucky to survive. These are the challenges that the travelers faced with the spread of disease. The long journey, the lack of resources, and the spread of disease were some of the challenges that people faced when traveling to California for the Gold Rush. This Gold Rush was absolutely terrible to the travelers. This took lots of time out of people's life for the Gold Rush for getting gold.
some travelers rode a muscle and some even had to walk. The walkers had to walk through Missouri all the way to Utah. The trip to California was brutal for the sea route. There were tens and thousands of people on one ship. The living quarters were dirty and probably smelt really bad. These are long journey challenges that travelers faced. A second challenge they faced were the lack of resources. “The gold-rushers also bought heaps of supplies, including red flannel shirts, high boots, wide hats, corduroy pants, pots, pans, kettles, cups, knives, forks, spoons, pickaxes, shovels, spades, hoes, axes, hatchets, daggers, Bowie knives, rifles, pistols, inflatable rubber beds, boats, tents, and bottles of medicine to cure every kind of disease. Forty-niners also purchased all types of mining gear, such as dredges, devices to sift and wash gold, ore mills, gadgets that separate gold from rocks using chemicals, and diving suits for collecting gold from stream bottoms. Much of this equipment was too heavy to transport easily, and had to be discarded on the way to the gold fields.” ( Barbara 5) On the California route the gold rushers used lots o supplies on the way there including pots, pans, cooking supplies, inflated rubber beds, boats, and tents. The food resources did not cover the whole trip. They had really lack of resources during the time they were down there for. These challenges travelers face with the lack of resources. The final challenges the travelers faced were the pred of disease. “The jungle route was thought to be the shortest and swiftest. Forty-niners found conditions nearly unbearable on the ships headed for Panama. After reaching land, they crossed the jungle by dugout canoe, then by mule over the mountains to Panama City. The oppressive heat and mosquito-infested swamps were miserable. Many travelers caught malaria, dysentery, typhoid, or cholera and died. Those who survived often waited months for passage on to California. In their desperate state, they fell prey to swindlers, who charged them up to a thousand dollars per ticket. They were crammed into crowded ships without adequate food supplies. Many were sick with fevers. It was common to see at least one body a day lowered overboard.” (Pamela 7) Many diseas passengers going through the jungle route caught were Malaria, Dysentery, Typhoid, or Choter and possibly would of died. Theses These diseas were very harmful if you caught them sometimes you would die. The ones who survive waited months and months on to California Which they would be lucky to survive. These are the challenges that the travelers faced with the spread of disease. The long journey, the lack of resources, and the spread of disease were some of the challenges that people faced when traveling to California for the Gold Rush. This Gold Rush was absolutely terrible to the travelers. This took lots of time out of people's life for the Gold Rush for getting gold.