Hardships In The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail, an opportunity for new generations. And also the end of many peoples generations.Would you make the attempt to get free land and perfect soil? Well this story of the Knight family might change your mind. The three main hardships that are faced during this journey is extreme walking, losing of animals, and little to no water.
Walking nearly 2,000 miles in a span of 4-6 months in today's world seems nearly insane. But this is the hardships that settlers faced on the Oregon Trail.On August 18th, we are told about the walking that the Knight family faced,” Traveled 10 miles today and down steep hills, and have just camped on the banks of the Grand Ronde River in a dense forest of pine timber- a most beautiful country.” This context is showing the hardship of the large amount of walking to get to Oregon. Another example of the extreme amount of walking is, “We have to make a drive of 22 miles, without water.” This is also showing the extremely low amounts of water.

And when traveling nearly 2,000 miles you are going to need a lot of water for you and your family. On July 27, a very hot day we hear about the water situation,” Came 15 miles today and have camped at the boiling springs, a great curiosity. They bubble up out of the earth boiling hot. I have only to pour water on my tea and its made. There is no cold water in this part…”.This is showing the hardship of not having cold water which is essential for nuterainel needs. Also we hear about the times of traveling many miles without water and we can almost hear the pain of the writer and how much her family needed