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Life on the Oregon Trail was very hard for the pioneers and their families. Many of them walked with bare feet over 15 miles a day. They had to survive floods, bad weather, insects, snakes, lack of food, hostile Native Americans and diseases.

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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.

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i think it is good on the Oregon trail because in kosovo the kids have to milk the cow before they go to school and we had to go some were me and my sister put the pots and pans is the car and some luggage in the car so i feal it was good

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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.

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Very hard. I have a book of women's diaries and they write about their experiences. They write about the dust, bugs, and weather conditions. How the wagons would get flooded when they crossed rivers and everything they owned was wet. They write about having babies on the trail and how friends died in childbirth and how the children got sick often dying. One woman had 6 children when they started on the trip, had a baby on the trail, and her husband died leaving her and the children. While crossing the mountains their wagon went over a cliff leaving her and the children with nothing. The family finished the trip on foot and in rags. This is just one experience. Most walked to Oregon, buried friends and family enroute and began a new life in a new land.

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To put it bluntly, tough. The Mormons had to walk all the way to Utah from the eastern states. That involve crossing rivers (half the time they were deep and/or icy) suffering from cold and starvation during the winter time, and a lot more. Try watching a documentary or two about the Mormon Trail.

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People DIED along the way from: Diseases, toxic poisoning from trying inedible plants, infections that could not be contained/controlled, native American Indian attack (who can blame them?), drowning while crossing rivers, buffalo stampedes, wagons falling off of mountainsides, wagons breaking, runaway wagons, starvation and dehydration.

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A day on the Oregon trail is very hard.People had to go through allot to get through a day on the Oregon Trail.

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Untamed.

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