“Of the estimated 350,000 who started the journey, disease may have claimed as many as 30,000 victims. Since the trail was 2,000 miles, this would indicate that there was an average of 10-15 deaths per mile. “
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“The Oregon Trail is this nation’s longest graveyard. Nearly one in ten emigrants who set off on the trail did not survive.” https://www.nps.gov/scbl/planyourvisit/upload/Death-and-Danger-Along-the-Trails.pdf …
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America is a never-ending frontier. Now we’re on the Covid trail.
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I can tell you, it is far more interesting than the old video game, but not as fun
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gahd, I love that game tho. also, maybe that’s why the game is so hard.
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yeah, based on playing the game I would have estimated the percentage of emigrants who died during the trek at something closer to 50%...but of course I was just a dumb elementary school kid at the time
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