Personal Narrative: My Journey To The Oregon Trail

After law school Parkman proceeded of what he desired. He learned how to sleep and hunt, and could survive alone by himself. Parkman has accomplished the desire that he had, he has wrote many books and has been recognized for such thing. In the document it tells the difficulty of traveling the Oregon Trail and why the Oregon Trail is so important at the time.

Americans were to travel with waggons along with family, supplies, animals, and anything else they wish to bring. American migrants will go through illnesses, Native American raids, and harsh weather; the Oregon Trail is deadly. The Oregon Trail has produced a high number of fatal diseases. Stated by oregontrailrus.weebly.com they are diseases varied in many ways, but there were two who affected the majority.

During the Oregon trail, you were completely alone with either yourself or your family. Comparatively, if you or someone in your family was a doctor it helped loads but that was not the majority. According to the primary source, Amelia Stewart was pregnant the entire journey without it being an issue,” A few days later my eighth child was born.” Meanwhile, according to an online source getting sick is very dangerous and many passed quickly, “It could attack a perfectly healthy person after breakfast and he would be in his grave by noon.” Subsequently found in the same text (https://oregontrailcenter.org/dangers#:~:text=Crossing%20rivers%20were%20probably%20the,water%2C%20causing%20wagons%20to%20overturn.)

They foresaw our nation growing westward and needed a catalyst to help drive this expansion. There had already been a few brave groups that took the trek out West to see what it had to offer. Some of the most notable treks were Lewis and Clark expedition, California gold rush, and the Oregon Trail expedition. All of these had driving forces of exploration of what the West had to offer. Some settled on the West coast, but some returned back home with their stories.

Performance Analysis of “Appalachian Journey” An analysis of the documentary “Appalachian Journey” by Alan Lomax proves that the musical performances featured are examples of traditional music. The songs performed used traditional music instruments and styles. Many songs were passed down through oral tradition, and many were stories of real events. The people of the appalachian mountains used banjo’s, guitars, and fiddles while singing throughout the documentary, including hand carved instruments and sound making toys.

It was dangerous and there was a very high chance of you catching deadly diseases. To make it west, you had to cross rivers, deserts, and mountains. Even

Getting down to Nebraska was harsh and the trail was dusty. The children like me had to take care of the animals. Jim, Antonia and myself became really good friends after living next door to each other for a while and we do everything together. When I work, I help my dad to plant and harvest crops and hunt for food. We planted and harvested corn, potatoes, pumpkin, wheat, peas, carrots and tomatoes.

I am a pioneer! My pioneer story isn’t your average Latter Day Saint pioneer story, as far as historical LDS stories go! I was raised by goodly parents, I was born and raised in Spokane Washington. I am the youngest of three children born to Jim and Shannon Newell. My brother James is the oldest and four years older than myself.

The Oregon Trail was traveled by over five hundred thousand people between 1841-1869. Many people wanted to travel on the Oregon Trail in hope of better health. They did not bring many supplies; they only brought the bare necessities. The pioneers traveled in covered wagons, called prairie schooners, pulled by oxen. The journey started in Independence, Missouri, and ended in Oregon City, Oregon.

The Oregon Trail impacted America by expanding the west more and improved our country’s development. In fact, the Oregon trail was the only way to get to the Rocky’s at the time. Traveling there included people taking large wagons or sailing. Pioneers however died from

There have been numerous amounts of important events throughout American history, from settlements to famous wars, many of them are worth traveling back in time and viewing in person for. If I were given an opportunity to time travel and witness one of these events in person, I would choose to visit the origins of the new world, in Jamestown, Virginia. It began on May 14, 1607, when roughly 100 men who had left England landed on a narrow peninsula in the James River, where they would live out their lives in Jamestown. The settlement had a variety of attractions which pulls me into wanting to time travel to see it, one including watching the settlements first leader, Captain John Smith in action. Another thing that catches my attention is the way that Jamestown was built and its location.

Cholera often took the lives of its victims within twelve hours of the first symptom. Because cholera is caused by the consumption of unsanitary food or water, most pioneers suffered from this disease. Some other illnesses included food poisoning, scurvy, smallpox, and pneumonia. One quote from a diary entry by E.W. Conyers, from May 25th, 1852, stated, "One wagon just passing...with the motto, 'Root, little hog or die '...on both sides...and on another cover is written, 'Bound for Origen.”

The emigrants on the oregon trail faced the most difficulty trying to survive and thrive in the west because of disease, accidents, and weather. Due to disease and illness, emigrants on the Oregon trail had a hard time trying to thrive and survive in the west. Disease was everywhere and people couldn’t avoid it. The National Park Service’s (NPS) article on the Oregon Trail states that “Cholera results from a waterborne bacteria that thrives

Lewis & Clark Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition spanned 8,000 mi (13,000 km) and three years, taking the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition party was known, down the Ohio River, up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis served as the field scientist, chronicling botanical, zoological, meteorological, geographic and ethnographic information. Lewis helped to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, a Pennsylvania uprising led by farmers against taxes, in 1794.

During the many days of traveling, the Cherokee faced severe weather conditions such as heat and a prolonged drought. During the long march, thousands of Cherokee children, women, and men died. Diseases were spread quickly. The sanitation was horrible, that was some of the ways you could get diseases, and another way you could get diseases was from bug bites. Over four thousand people died from diseases on the way to the settlement.