Oregon Trail

sense, we could afford almost everything we absolutely needed, but we wanted to save up as much as possible instead of getting small little pleasures every once in awhile. The only reason my family and I have these journals is to write about the Oregon Trail and all of our adventures, which means we need to bring some pencils. It’s a little tacky, I’ve heard everyone is bringing at least one, and we need all the space we can get since we are bringing all of our farming tools and some animal…

Oregon Trail Traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1800s was a dangerous journey.However,the danger wasn't from Native Americans as you might think.As a matter of fact,many records show that Native Americans helped,many of the travelers along the way.The real danger was from a disease called cholera that killed many shettlers.Other dangers included bad weather and accidents while trying to move their heavy wagons over the mountains. The pioneers were able to bring very little with them.When they…

We left right after breakfast, a hearty serving of bacon and eggs. Elizabeth Wright had some extra eggs that she didn't want to bring along so she split it between the people in the wagon train. That only meant four eggs for us so we made more bacon to compensate. We followed the Platte River for one hundred seventy miles before we reached the California Crossing. My legs feel like they are falling off. They have ached since the start of this journey but I can't let Sam know. Then he would just…

Buck, Rinker. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. Revised ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. In the book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, Rinker Buck travel with his brother alone the Oregon Trail. Rinker Buck and his brother, Nick, experience reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers of the Oregon Trail. Although the journey was harsh, and was at times unpleasant, the brother agreed that the journey was a trip of a lifetime because of the…

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.…

Have you ever wanted to go to Oregon? There are many sights and experiences to see, feel, and try, along with a rich history. It’s the year 1803. President Thomas Jefferson bought a huge swatch of land for the US, including what is now Oregon. He sent explorers to map the territory. Later, in 1840, settlers traveled up the Oregon Trail. On February 14, 1854, Oregon became the 33rd official state. Oregon may have gotten its name from the French word “Ouragan”, which means hurricane and was a…

A Oregon has a marvelous agriculture including many crops and animals. Oregon has two main crops; hazelnuts and pears. Hazelnuts are the state nut. Hazelnuts are high in protein and fiber. 95% of America’s hazelnuts are produced in Oregon. Another important crop is the pear, the state’s fruit. Oregon is 2nd in the nation for pear production. Cows are an important part of Oregon’s agriculture. Oregon is in the top five for milk quality. Cows produce 6.5 gallons of milk everyday! Milk is also the…

Marys Peak - Fir Forests Lindsay Liddell FES 342 Professor Matthew Powers MWF 10-11am Due: 10/19/15 Marys Peak is a mountain in Benton County, Oregon. At the top of the peak, on a clear day, one can see the cities of the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Range, and the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its meadows of wildflowers in spring and its fir forests uniquely populated with noble firs (Abies procera). Little data is available regarding the trees age, but there is clear variance in age,…

thus consuming precious farm land and many other types of land use (Randolph). This realization of a population and space crisis is what has driven only a few cities in the United States (US) to adopt a regional city planning approach. Portland, Oregon is one of the few areas in the US that has adopted this approach (CSIRP). In 1990, Portland’s view of growing populations and cities changes and they began to realize impacts of…

In 2012 a family of 4 moved from Madison, Alabama to Bend, Oregon. They have visited Bend, Oregon every year for 10 years. They have watched the area grow and decided they wanted to move here. The family found a home in Awbrey Glen. The area was just the right size, the streets weren't crowded with houses, and the traffic was at a minimum. But after four years they started to second guess moving to the area. Northwest Crossing (a neighborhood in Bend) started crowding both sides of the…