Messed Up Things That Happened On The Oregon Trail Marathon

Do you think you could survive the Oregon Trail?

This video has some accuracies but alot of inaccuracies as well. Travelling to Oregon or California around rhis rome was treacherous as abything oitside of Independence or Fort Laramie was unscathed terrain. Many individuals did die from diseases such as Dysentery, Cholera, Consumption (otherwise known as TB) and the Flu. There were VERY FEW Native American tribes that caused havoc for these pioneers, but there were some. The Paiute Tribe did successfully poison several herds of cattle with the Donner party. Other tribes often tried to barter or trade on the trail, or straigh up steal. This isn't to say there wasn't any fear of Navive Americans on the trail, but there were bigger concerns. The concept of hygeine, guns accidentally misfiring, and the amount of children dying on the trail just to name a few. Timing was everything for these individuals, and it was ill fated for some (like the Donner Party). The wagons often weighed significantly more than what their oxen could pull, so there was a great deal of walking, but only towards the end of the journey, when the parties probably emptied out much of their wagons to help ease the strain on their oxen. Individuals also rode on horseback as much as they could.

What movie is it that they keep showing clips from here?

Tell me how Native Americans weren’t a threat by describing to me how they were. lol

Right, Native Americans weren’t a threat and fear of them was hype, until it wasn’t..

Really sad the abuse the animals pulling wagons endured , unfortunately animal abuse continues to this day due to the unnecessary sport known as Rodeo ! 😔

Road trip to see the ruts and rock writing are 10 yr old daughter would of rather gone to Disney lol

Just got done playing the game Oregon trail and this video came up 👍

Covers made of HEMP canvas.

What did they wipe their asses with?

Did they have fentanyl? Oh I guess not because They didn't have an idiot for a president

The "tires" ??? LMAO watta d.a.

The hideous music ruins this. I yeeted right on out within three minutes.

"Messed up things?" This is your best attempt at literature?

They did not know to boil water 😢

Ok... why did the kid have to tell his mom there were maggots? Did she not check it at all for the entire 9 days??? Not wash it? Not change the dressings? Can't really blame the guy who saw the kid one time for that much neglect...

The gun deaths ,i call bs.

Growing up just 6 miles from the official end of the Oregon trail, I have always had a keen respect for how difficult a journey it must have been.

I know the terrain, and it's better here than in many other areas along the way. Considering how difficult the terrain is here now, and how much rougher it was then, with primitive technology... it's a feat of strength and determination to have come that far.

There are things folks should learn. We live on timelines like an onion. Layered time lines. So an example would be, you are on your phone watching this video meanwhile there is actually folks experiencing this in their 1800s timeline. As our soul traverses, things we see in our timeline that we are interested in, we when in our next life maybe cast. This is how through history...we had seers and great inventors. Our soul has been proven to never die, only our body. You may have a very difficult time in life now...but you are learning something. Then your next life, you help many others...and it could be in your next life, you are a part of these wagon trains with a piece of knowledge. Science today is discovering time lines at CERN, and they have documented truth of time travellars. Its along with this big step of AI.

Could do without the “music”…

Too bad its political at the expense of the Truth.

Can you offer these without the background music?

Imagine now, in 2024, risking your life to get to Portland, Oregon?

my uncle was one of the guys that performed gunfights when i was a kid i got to go almost everyday for about two weeks that place was so fun

My Mom has an oxyn🎉 I was a caregiver for a lady she said the Indians would come over to her house trying to get coffee 😅

Wagons in those days did not have tires, they had wooden wheels with an iron rim around the spoked wheel.

Oh, Interesting, I didn’t know the Donner party came through Weber canyon (pronounced Weeber) I live close to it.

Shame about the background muzak.

Background music is jarring

the music puts me off

I guess this guy thinks he is a Oregon trail expert 😅

Great subject matter but the music is too much and too loud!

paid for by the Oregon anti gun coalition.

My great grandmothe rode to wyoming with the wagons my momwas boren on theway there i knowquitea babout this subject from first hand account !😂

I grew up in the middle of Wyoming My father would take us on day.Trips along the Oregon trail.We would see graves along the road and you could see the. Ruts the wagon wheels made in the ground, There were also graves some had.
I am bed frames marking their graves.
You could also see where they would unload. The wagons to lighten this was in the 1970s. My dad was so kind to show us that needs stuff.😮

I notice a lot of these new videos try to downplay the threat of native americans. You only have to read the diaries of individuals that traveled west to know the threat was real. There are several books on the topic as well. Check out Unworthy History, he reads a lot of these accounts.

My great-grandmother crossed the country on the Oregon trail. She passed at 101 in 1974 and was sharp as a tack right to the end. Durable was a quality of life.

It would have been better to boat south and cross southern Mexico and up the west coast. Just get far enough south to avoid passing through Comanche raiding country.

Wagon should have been designed with 8 wheels and twice the size with 16- 24 ox.

actually the maggots were helping, because maggots only eat dying, rotting flesh, but not many then or now know that

lmaooo this is a list of myths.

I never heard that Jim Bridger was the reason that the Donner party took that route. And I don't know that I believe it now.

I can't help wondering if the native American cultures looked at our great-grands in these wagons like the Romans looked at the barbarians from the north...oh, snap! We've always been the same creeping barbarians!

Thank everyone who is commenting!!! So many interesting stories!!

Too much background music that interferes with the actual story. It's an unenjoyable listen.

Rachel Plummer.

Tires?..... no tires. Just wheels.

Oh really? Ever heard of megafauna? Where did hey all go pshhhh