Hardships In The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Tail was a way for many settlers to travel west. The settlers face many hardships throughout the journey. Some of the harshened they faced were disease, injury, and much more. While going through the plains, storms were very dangerous. Many of the deaths were even because the settlers fell out of the wagons and were crushed by the wheels and axles. When settlers were infected with disease, the cause could have been dirty water and/or milk from a cow that ate poisonous weeds. Back when the Oregon Trail started, things were very different than they are now. In the passage, Williams Reed states “The stones for the first grist were brought across the plains by wagon.” This detail from the passage tells me that a lot of things were