Hardships on the Oregon Trail
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This resource provides quick but vivid overviews of the myriad of hardships pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail, including river crossings, walking, accidents, weather, and cholera. The story is told with quotations from first-person accounts as well as video clips from historian Merrill Mattes. This page is part of "The Oregon Trail," a companion Web site to the PBS documentary film created by Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher. This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson titled "On the Oregon Trail." Less
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Grade: 3 to 12
Topics: Geography, United States History, History-Social Science
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