How do you think you would have fared travelling on the Oregon trail?

I burned 2000 calories once. I took a nap one day and left a pan of brownies in the oven too long.

My great-great-grandparents walked that trail, and then took the California Trail following a mountain man by the name of Greenwood into Sacramento, California in 1845. Their memoirs and accounts in UCSB Library give a very vivid account of a very tough journey, and a very tough time once the arrived in California. I would say it was close to a hand to mouth existence for a long while. They ate what the natives ate and their own dwindling rancid supplies. I have multiple photographs of my great-great-grandmother Eliza's tent on Telegraph Hill, at Kearney and Vallejo St. in San Francisco in 1849. No Thanks.

The ones that brought the dairy cows gave up 1/3 the way there and said "let's just be Wisconsin"

It is amazing to me the number of people I meet who don't understand that the pioneers that crossed the continent in covered wagons did NOT travel in covered wagons. They walked along side them. Except for the very young and very old, they walked the entire distance. Also, the wagons were pulled by oxen. But that wasn't because oxen could pull more or longer. It was because the natives that already lived on the land the settlers were stealing didn't care about them. They would attack a wagon pulled by horses and take them.

I would have died of dysentery after caulking the wagon and trying to float across the river to avoid the costly ferry.

If it was this bad for willing people, imagine how bad the trail of tears was. 😢

My great grandmother walked from ohio to oklahoma. Said they ate anything they could find. Said if they could catch it they ate it.

The Oregon Trail center in Baker City, indicated there is one grave per mile on the Oregon Trail. A ton of people didn't make it. We've been here since 1866.

4 mph is a really really fast pace. With a wagon and everything, they were lucky to make half that speed.

My grandmother was born in 1890 ,,, in 1900 they packed up their belongings in a covered wagon and came west from Pennsylvania on the Oregon Trail ,, she rode a horse the entire way ,, she told us stories of folks walking behind wagons hanging on to ropes to get pulled along ,, the family finally settled in California where most of them live today near Yuba City.

We as a country are heading BACK in this direction. We will soon be there.

"Medicinal purposes" Gimme the bottle, I have a headache.

Today's 'entitled little darlings' have a meltdown if they have to walk to the fridge.

Yes, we all played this game, I just don’t remember the graphics being this good

My dad's side of the family have been here in Florida since 1450 they founded pine castle FL my mom's side came to America in 1840 from Sweden they walked from NY to Florida I can't imagine how beautiful this country was back then

My great grandmother was in the last wagon train on the Oregon Trail. She had to walk the entire way knitting socks for the family, while making sure the cattle didn’t stray. She wasn’t even a teenager.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

So, that is why the old Oregon Trail game had me hunting every other rest period. Can you imagine how much lead was consumed and deposited along the trail?

This society would fail immediately.

The film clip of the guy catching a catfish is Terrance Hill from the movie My Name is Nobody

I've walked from Tampa Florida to Daytona Florida

The pioneers and settlers had a pretty good traveling but one of the Travelers no one wants to talk about is the Trail of Tears how they forced and walked 2,000 miles they didn't have luxury my great great grandmother walked the Trail of Tears at 5 years Old in 1850s She died at the age of 115.

I'd die after the first 10 miles. Glad to see Sam Elliott doing well on the walk.

You forgot about the dysentery. The game always ends with the dysentery. And if you live in Oregon like I do the majority of it is desert on the east side. Water supplies are scarce and there's all sorts of nasty things in the water that even the average person can't just drink the water these days.

Now that's exercise. And natives increases the speed.

This channel is just awesome

Beans, Beef stew, bacon, and water.

Rugged, Smart, and Strong people. ‼️

Bacon brandy and whiskey would have been the only reason you could have gotten me to walk 2000 miles

Thank you for your logical & more palatable revelation.🌞

Then you see the pop-up, "you got bit by a mosquito and died of dysentery."

Let's take society back to those times. Cure all our problems. Too many weak minded sheeple these days..

I give those people alot of credit! I drove to California from ohio and that wore me out! To walk it would be quite the adventure.

I live now and have lived along other parts of the trail in Oregon for the last decade. The part near me now along with other wagon routes are still visible in a few spots. I can’t imagine traveling by wagon or foot in the mountains around here.

400 lbs of bacon! Cool!

love seeing the clip from "my name is nobody". great movie.

Donner Party like it's 1869...

When we were cutting whear out in South Dakota a farmer showed us a area that was fenced off it looked like a monster truck ran thru it and muddied it up. He said that was the ruts of the wagon train on the original Oregon trail. He said it didn't rain a lot out there and they grow their wheat from the nitrogen out of snow but that particular year it rained a lot.

Legend of Buster Scruggs

The old school game Oregon trail tells me all I know what would happen to me. Death by everything

My grandmother’s grandfather came to California in 1850, following the gold rush. Our family has watched people coming to California over the decades, over the generations… And the most recent three generations are what have ruined California, coming from everywhere across the United States. Soft. Incapable. Whining. Entitled.

That's a hard one to beat. Back in my day I walked 2000 miles barefooted and you can't even take out the garbage?? 🤣

Thank you for sharing!

Cows sheep or goats is a game changer makes a huge difference big time

Carrying all that, and making it through would be a story to tell.

Some of the pioneer companies that ran into trouble had to cut rations to a few ounces of flour a day. And then there were the Willie and Martin companies, who got caught by winter and were reduced to measures like boiling the rawhide wrappings of their tent poles.

got about half way through this before I fell asleep 😴 💤

my family founded certain parts of oregon.they came threw the oregon trail at the very begining..these people were tough..insanely tough..many died.my ggg whatever grandma made it to oregon with 5 kids.and her husband died on the trail from illness. her brother in law helped.but this woman was about as tough as u can get.mail or frmale...and my family is the founders of many parts of oregon as a result

That used to be a game when I was in school. The Oregon Trail.

Full hydration and a herd

A day's travel was eight miles due to oxen being sterdy but not fast. Cavalry posts were positioned accordingly many are now small towns

Amazing facts.

The wagons were mostly pulled by Oxen, not horses or mules as they were more expensive. Also they brought extra Oxen and harnesses, etc. Many also brought farming equipment with them. So these weren't poor people as it took as sizable investment to purchase all that was needed to immigrate westward.

More beans mr. Targert. Naw i think you boys had enough....

"you have died from dysentery" I'll never forget that game and Odell Lake! There is no need for these ridiculously realistic video games when the goal is just an hr or so of entertainment

I read a pioneer's diary. Rancid flour etc. and any plants they could eat.

Enjoy reading some of the stories from other folks and these facts in this short video. And this is what helped make this country great and why we love this country.

That's a lotta beans

Clips from ballad of buster S. ?

The good old days...,.when men were men

History be like - in the days before railroad to -days before the Automobile to- days before airports to days before jet airliners and super highways!

My whiskey is medicinal. Long lasting family secret. Broken arm, take a shot. Snake bite, take 4. 😋 😁🤣

There were often kegs of water strapped to the sides of wagons, and the humans were not the first to drink the mules were the most valuable items some family had

even that food tasted good when they were hungry.

Oh those little clips of The ballad of buster Scruggs bum you out

Not to mention,the heat ,the cold ,the wind dust storms ,wild animals , but catching fresh trout ? That would be a real treat.

1600 calories a day? No problem, that is just one Big Mac

First off on the Oregon trail oxen pulled the wagons.

when Men were Men and they changed the world .. :)

And a boom stick. Sometimes you have to blow something's or someone's head Clean Off. To neutralize the threat. You wouldn't even have to call anybody afterwards either..

Can you imagine? The terrain was extremely difficult with a wagon..

Whatever you do, don’t eat only wild rabbits. You’ll get protein poisoning because they don’t have fat on them, and you’d need 3 times as many carbs to process it safely if your out of fat.

I always wondered about this

This scene is from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix.

I remember this story in the third grade we had to do this s*** I wound up getting enough cuz I put down from here I've always been from here I didn't come over from Europe

My family played this game and hey we haven’t beaten it all yet because my uncle David told me “it was impossible to beat it”

Don’t forget Pemican!

Makes ya wonder how those small kids made it up to the US from south america , must of been the George soris express lol

Easier to just stop at Kroger or Publix and slide the Mastercard for something hot out of the deli. They should have done that.

Is it possible to recreate their journey in modern day backpacking and Hiking or what I need like a horse a good trusty Steed at my side

Pounds.. incomprehensible

I'd die of dysentery.🤢 I remember that from childhood.

Had they walked at 4mph, they would have been miles ahead of the lead, oxen towed wagon before lunch time. Think a lot closer to 2mph. That would alter your caloric estimate downward. But, walking rough terrain does consume more calories than on a paved path, or even a well beaten dirt path. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

I walk around 5 miles a day just to commute to work.

Freeze dried Mountain House!

You are forgetting that there were trading posts out there for a couple hundred years already established, because of the fir trade

No one walks 4 miles an hour, less on ruff terrain. I know. I hiked the whole AT. 2.65 miles per hour.

Rough times for sure, but the fish & game was bad ass that long ago. I hope they had tobacco also for a smoke or a chew in those hard times.

They stopped at Arby's every 50 miles

You forgot about Molasses. VERY IMPORTANT TO PIONEER SURVIVAL.

I used to love that game.

Beans, don't forget beans.

What is the walking cow's caloric requirement per mile?

Americans soon forget..... what a shame

But you could always raid the wagon of the family that died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail

so that’s what my party goes through

Imagine if they had bicycles lol

Also, they should have put something on that wagon foe dysentery.

where did they get the rice?