I trudged towards my wagon train as it had been a long hard day’s travel. I came through land consisting of 35 miles of sand and dust, with no accessible water. The exhaustion hit me so hard, I often wondered why I still had the desire to settle west. Once again, I realized my burning passion of a clean and new life, not the redundant cycle I had in Virginia.
The hardships of the Oregon Trail were extremely difficult to face. Stretching 2,000 miles of unknown terrain, the task should be completed in five months. Skeptically, I always had felt, when pondering upon how I would complete this distance in the duration of time given. This journey started happily as travellers were excited to settle west. My fellow companions had started with many …show more content…
The word was engraved in my head at all times. This unknown ground I was crossing were full of unknown dangers, and I needed to stay level-headed at all times. Daily, I risked my life as I had negligible amounts of food left and almost no sanitized water. I knew the dangers incorporated in this trip were threatening, however, it was always forgotten as I remembered the chance of settling in a new area, with a fresh life to start. It was hard knowing that each mile I crossed, death may be awaiting me. Fear. The emotion always was running through me. And soon enough, I realized it was the primary emotion which made travellers die.
There were times where I felt my legs collapse from exhaustion and my stomach loudly grumbling for food, as I need to save the rest up for the journey. At times like this, I had to remember the life that awaited me if I could survive the treacherous Oregon Trail. The horses and oxen were consistently pushed on to continue, as travellers did not let them rest.
Wagon trains tended to be lighter for horses and oxen, as the weight determined the pace of the travellers. Mainly, travellers like me were inspired by dreams of gold and rich farmlands, but we were also motivated by difficult economic times in the east and the diseases like yellow fever and malaria, to settle some place new, like the
The hardships of the Oregon Trail were extremely difficult to face. Stretching 2,000 miles of unknown terrain, the task should be completed in five months. Skeptically, I always had felt, when pondering upon how I would complete this distance in the duration of time given. This journey started happily as travellers were excited to settle west. My fellow companions had started with many …show more content…
The word was engraved in my head at all times. This unknown ground I was crossing were full of unknown dangers, and I needed to stay level-headed at all times. Daily, I risked my life as I had negligible amounts of food left and almost no sanitized water. I knew the dangers incorporated in this trip were threatening, however, it was always forgotten as I remembered the chance of settling in a new area, with a fresh life to start. It was hard knowing that each mile I crossed, death may be awaiting me. Fear. The emotion always was running through me. And soon enough, I realized it was the primary emotion which made travellers die.
There were times where I felt my legs collapse from exhaustion and my stomach loudly grumbling for food, as I need to save the rest up for the journey. At times like this, I had to remember the life that awaited me if I could survive the treacherous Oregon Trail. The horses and oxen were consistently pushed on to continue, as travellers did not let them rest.
Wagon trains tended to be lighter for horses and oxen, as the weight determined the pace of the travellers. Mainly, travellers like me were inspired by dreams of gold and rich farmlands, but we were also motivated by difficult economic times in the east and the diseases like yellow fever and malaria, to settle some place new, like the