Show Notes: Podcast 10 - When you should pack your weight in bacon

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By the Numbers:

• 2,170 - Miles long the Oregon Trail was from Independence, MO to Willamette, OR
• 1836 first wagon train on the Oregon Trail
• 1803 year Great Brittian Declares War on France in response to prohibiting GB trade with Europe
• 1803 year France sells 'Louisianna' to the United States at $18/mile
• 1803 year that Jefferson commissions Louis and Clark to map the new territory
• 1814 year the War of 1812 treaty of Ghent signed restoring order to the Canadian border and stopping Canadian trappers from expanding south
• $4 the amount a Beaver Pelt sold for in 1840
• $1 the daily wage in 1840
• 1843 year of the Great Migration
• 43,000 number of Mormons that migrated along parts of the Oregon Trail from 1840-1860
• 1848 California GOld RUsh begins
• 65 percent of the male population that moved from Oregon to California in 1849
• 6 Months of food needed to make the journey
• 20 pounds of sugar each wagon carried
• 150 pounds of bacon in each wagon
• 200 pounds of flour per person that was packed for the trail
• 268,000 travelers that used a portion of the Trail from 1840-1860
• 95% survival rate of those that started the journey
• 12,000 died by desease
• 4,500 died by indigenouse attacs
• 500 Froze to death
• 500 Were trampled
• 500 were shot by non-indigenouse
• 500 scurvey
• 500 drowned
• 1971 year the game Oregon Trail came out developed by the Minnisota Educational COmputin Consortium