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Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a historic wagon route. It connected the Missouri River to the Oregon valleys.

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Wild animals on the Oregon Trail?

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American Bison (the American buffalo), wolves, bears (blacks, browns, and grizzlies), wild horse, wild burros, hawks, eagles, ospreys, cardinals, bluebirds, bluejays, sparrows, prairie chickens, pheasant, sage grouse, mourning doves, sea gulls, swans, geese, ducks, martens, herons, mountain lions, bobcats, lynxes, prairie dogs, foxes, coyotes, badgers, wolverines, rabbits, tortoises, skunks, ground squirrels, chipmunks, elk, deer, moose, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain goats, grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies number among the plethora of animals that might be encountered along the Oregon Trail. Catfish and trout were found in the streams and lakes along the way, as well.

Why did people want to move out west on the Oregon Trail?

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for a better life, which included making more money, bigger land given to you by the government, and a new start in life.

How much did a wagon coast during the Oregon trail?

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It took a considerable amount to put together the essentials like: * Wagon and oxen. * A six months supply of food for your party. * Weapons and ammunition. * Essential tools to begin your new life. * A bundle of trade goods for the Native Americans enroute. Once the trip began cash was of little use since there was no place to spend it.

What month did people leave for the Oregon Trail?

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It took from four to six months. If you started too early, you risked floods and mud. If you started too late, you risked snow storms,

How did they treat a scorpion sting on the oregon trail?

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gunpowder and salt As it turns out, rattlesnakes are able to control the amount of venom that they deliver and they benefit by not wasting the venom on an animal much too large to eat. Most people bitten by rattlesnakes stand a fairly good chance of receiving a sub-leathal dose of venom so almost anything you do for treatment that itself doesn't kill the victim will stand about as good a chance of resulting in the victim's survival. Whiskey is often offered as a cure in the movies...that is probably about as bad a treatment as any but, even so, there were survivors.
they had to cut exactly on the fang marks and suck as many blood venom as they could.
Is this question supposed to be asking how the pioneers following the Oregon Trail in the 1800's dealt with rattlesnake bites? If so, then someone else will need to provide an answer. If not, then the place name is not relevant to the question. The answer below is for current treatment.

Rattlesnake bites are "cured" the same no matter where the person is-by medical personnel using antivenin to counter the venom. The only catch with antivenin is that the snake's type has to be identified so they know which antivenin to use (if there is any). Your only other option is to use first aid measures, tough it out, and hope that you aren't severely maimed or disfigured by the damage that rattlesnake poison does to the human body. Since first aid measures won't cure the poison, they won't be listed here.

But it was possible to treat. **** is where you will go.
drink lots of water and try to take it out. drink lots of water and try to take it out.
gunpowder and salt As it turns out, rattlesnakes are able to control the amount of venom that they deliver and they benefit by not wasting the venom on an animal much too large to eat. Most people bitten by rattlesnakes stand a fairly good chance of receiving a sub-leathal dose of venom so almost anything you do for treatment that itself doesn't kill the victim will stand about as good a chance of resulting in the victim's survival. Whiskey is often offered as a cure in the movies...that is probably about as bad a treatment as any but, even so, there were survivors.
they had to cut exactly on the fang marks and suck as many blood venom as they could.

How do you download Oregon trail 5?

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What is the best operating system and why? WIndows for universality.

What month did the Oregon trail end?

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The Oregon Trail was 4-6 months

Did the Oregon trail go through Colorado?

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Yes. It passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.

What did people on the Oregon Trail eat for breakfast?

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they ate breads eggs and apples for breakfasst

How long did it take to travel the Oregon Trail by coach?

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It didn't take any time to "get to" the Oregon Trail. Once they left the jumping off point they were there .There were many dangers. Life was very hard.. At the start the land was flat and everyone was still fresh, but as the trip went along things got harder. They were going 2400 miles across land that was a combination of prairie , mountains, and deserts. Each had their own problems. They faced awful storms, floods, loosing family members and friends to the various diseases and accidents. Some lost everything in mountain passes or in flooded rivers. Most of the women and children walked the entire way. Today the prairie in some places is still pretty much the way they found it with bugs, heat, and winds blowing all day every day. They were brave stubborn people who put everything on a small wagon, left family, and left on a six month trip to a place they only heard about. The one thing it was NOT was boring.

What kind of weapons did they tack on the Oregon trail?

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hammers , axes ,maybe an extra wheel ,few bandages , nails, lantern, wire, rope, shovel, gun, pocket knife

What are some major differences and similarities between the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail?

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1. people died on both of them

2. they both took weeks or even months to travel on and most who tried it had little supplies

What was the worst thing about the Oregon trail?

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getting drowned by the rushing waves of rivers

How did the Oregon Trail Pioneers treat burns?

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they covered the burn in egg white

What was the weather like on the Oregon trail during the day?

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Weather on the Oregon Trail was brutal most of the time due to either too much heat, too much cold, a blizzard, rain, or another type of storm. These were especially brutal if you had been on the trail for a long time. The journey takes 4-6 months.

What plants were poisonous on the Oregon trail?

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Game was scarce, but pioneers were able to get bison, deer and rabbit. Beans were one of the other few sources of protein. Biscuits, salt pork, corn bread, dried corn, hull corn, cream corn, and dried corn mush.

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Much of what the pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail was non-perishable food that would travel well and, hopefully, last until they reached their destination. Other food items were either purchased along the way, or were hunted or harvested.

Basic items they would take with them included:

flour

hard tack (aka pilot bread, sea biscuit)

crackers

bacon (salted and preserved pork)

rice

coffee

tea

sugar

saleratus (baking soda)

dried beans

dried vegetables (pumpkin, peppers, onion)

dried fruit (prunes, raisins, currants, apples)

salt

corn meal

corn

vinegar

These ingredients were used to make bread, biscuits, pies, cakes, mush (porridge made from corn meal), corn soup, etc.

Other foods they might bring with them included cheese, chicken, ham, dried beef, sweets/candy, chocolate, codfish, herring, meat biscuits, portable soup, molasses, and syrup.

Most also brought along a cow for the fresh milk and for making butter. Chickens might have been brought along for fresh eggs.

Jam was made from fresh berries found along the way. Also harvested along the way were wild onions, wild plums, etc.

Hunting provided fresh meat from buffalo (bison), deer, rabbits and other wild animals.

How much was gunpowder during the Oregon trail?

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About 300 pounds

Waht was the 'oregon trail'?

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The people used it to find new land, new settlements na dstarted to make a community out of what they had

How does the Oregon trail relate to the growth of the US?

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People moved out west and started new colonies, and the colonies expanded, thus the growth of the US rose.

How do you cure dysentery in the 1800s on the Oregon trail?

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Contaminated water.

This was part of the reason most quality guidebooks to the trails recommended using "oxen and one yoke of cow to pull your wagon as the cows can give milk on the trail and they can be sold when you arrive at your destination" as although the reason why drinking the water made people sick was not understood, it was known that people drinking fresh milk on the trail got sick much less often.