Essay On Oregon Trail

Have you ever gone somewhere where no one has before? Thankfully the people that left their family's to go find new land did because America wouldn't be America as we know it now. The Oregon trail was part of the trails out west which is when people would travel to start a new life. Family's would travel the trails with many dangers on the journey just hoping that they find good land. "The road to-day was very hilly and rough. At night we encamped within one mile of Fort Hall. Mosquitoes were as thick as flakes in a snowstorm. The poor horses whinnied all night, from their bites, and in the morning the blood was streaming down their sides." -Margaret A. Frink, July 11, 1850. Even though the struggles the pioneers faced on the journey out west it was worth it at the end. The trails out west were a group of trails that lead people where almost no one lived. The Oregon trail was over 2000 miles long and lead from Missouri to Oregon. Thousands of people would take the bumpy horrible trail, but people took it because they wanted a new life hoping for a better life. The main purposes for taking the trail was to find land to farm or go to California for the gold rush. The Oregon trail was most useful between 1830
and 1860. The trip usually took between 4-6 months. When they would travel on the trail with wagons. The ones in the movies with the white covers were actually super rare on the trail. Those wagons were too heavy so the people would just use farm wagons pulled by an ox. There wagon would mostly be filled with food. They would also have tools and water on the wagon.

The trails out west very important to America in the 1800’s and even now.
First of all, there were very important people on the oregon trail. For example, Narcissa Whitman and her husband Marcus were the first people to take the Oregon trail and they lead a small group of people on the journey out west. There were also many fur traders on the trail. They were important because the people traveling on the trail could get what they needed when they came up to a fur traders booth. Second, the Oregon trail and all the brave people that traveled it were extremely important to American history. First of all, if no one would have traveled the trail to find new land. We might not have all of the west coast land and the USA could be very
different.

Is the state of California in the northern or the southern part of the United States? That's the same question America was asking themselves during the Civil war. So California, Nebraska, and Kansas had battles to see if they would be on the north side or the south side. This relates to the trails out west because America didn't really have a good idea of anything west of the Mississippi River. Since so many people were moving west the civil war also took place west of the