![]() Then on May 22, 1843, a group of around 1,000 people – men, women, and children – packed into 120 wagons, rounded up 5,000 livestock animals, and headed from Elm Grove, MO, to Oregon. ![]() Trappers and traders followed suit, as did small groups of people looking to start farms. (Never mind that Native Americans lived on that land for thousands of years prior.) Military men and explorers Lewis and Clark famously crossed the continent between 1804 to 1806. By the 1840s, Americans convinced themselves that it was their God-given right to expand their new-ish country from the Atlantic to the Pacific – a belief that was named Manifest Destiny in 1845. ![]() In case you skipped that particular history class, here’s the TLDR version. Sadly, the IRL Oregon Trail was even more grueling than any game could convey. And frankly, we’re glad because the dysentery, thieves, and other hazards back then were outrageous. We came the closest to retracing the Oregon Trail through the classic video game of the same name. ![]()
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