what were problems people faced on the oregon trail?

Question

The question is self explanatory.

Answer 1

They face starvation if they did not either pack enough or when once they ran out there was not enough wild game to hunt. They also faced disease such as typhoid and dysentery which could spread to all members of the traveling party. Ox could get sick from starvation and if your ox die then you don't have a way to travel through the trail.

Answer 2

The number one cause of death for children on the Oregon Trail was being run over by wagon wheels.

The number one cause of accidental death for adults was being shot by a gun in the hands of a greenhorn (or shooting themselves).

Add to this the dangers of river crossings, stampedes, disease, falls, and snakebites.....

Contrary to popular belief, Indians rarely attacked wagon trains on the Oregon and Overland Trails. They traded with emigrants, stole horses if they could, and picked through wagons that had been abandoned for some reason. Some did attack lone wagons, but during the heyday of the Oregon Trail, there were just too many wagons on the trail and an attack on a small wagon train could be interrupted by the arrival of men from another.

The crowded conditions led to fights, more disease from polluted water, and poor grazing.

How crowded was it? One emigrant reported counting five wagon trains that he could see from the top of Independence Rock. He estimated around 120 wagons total. Only forty of those were in his wagon train.

Answer 3

They had a early 90's game made about them played on a busted Apple computer... .. somehow mary always died from a snake bite and i could never shoot those f'kn rabbits....gosh !~

Answer 4

the trail goes uphill

Answer 5

one problem was the terrain, they had to face vast deserts, blistering blizzards and more

Answer 6

starvation, indian attack, disease, heat stroke, food poisening, falling of cliffs.....