I had 4 sets of great-grandparents who came on the trail. One grandmother was so sure she'd die on the trail, she had their wagon carry her coffin made of "hard wood." She made it to Oregon. Another great grandpa ended up with another family joining his wagon after a storm destroyed their wagon. When he got to the WillametteValley, he had one dollar to his name. I'm grateful for them. They paved a way for me and my family.
I grew up in a small town in western Nebraska and the Oregon trail tracked right through our small High School we learned as children. As a child I fantasized about this fact and felt it was a metaphor or omen to seek my future by learning and studying as hard as I could and I would be rewarded by following a path to a life I wanted. I'm a Geezer now, retired physician, interventional cardiologist and amazed and content on where this path took me. Ruts from The Trail are still visible outside town and in the Ash Hollow area. My family came to Nebraska on the Trail and homesteaded in the Sandhills satisfied this land was as good as any so "let's stop here." I understand their hardships to a degree and inherited the immigrant mentality and toughness that was passed down to future generations by these courageous, adventuresome folks. The culture of those homesteaders hadn't changed much I realize in retrospect as I experienced it as a child in the early 1950's and I'm now in my 70's.
I saw those ruts just outside Grand Island and again in the Sandhills! I was amazed at how they still existed, must be so many travelled, it it was truly packed down into rock form.
This may be one of my favorite comments. And we can even add a layer: "Watching a piece of history, filmed with a piece of history, recorded onto a piece of history (VHS), on a piece of history."
I moved to Oregon after living 66 years in Los Angeles in 2020. My people were from Colorado by the way of West Virginia and New Mexico that migrated during the great depression looking for the opportunities Los Angeles offered. Mistakenly I thought Oregon would be an extension of CA. It wasn't long before I got here that I discovered that Oregonians, true Oregonians, here generations since they came through the South Pass to the Willamette Valley where I presently live, these descendants of pioneers were a different breed truly, I swear you can see their lineage oozing from every cell in their bodies. And when I inquire, sure enough. It is so interesting.
I watched this after seeing the Paramount show "1883" about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. This old documentary doesn't get into a lot of drama. I like how it's based on the pioneers' actual diaries.
Grandma Gatewood from Ohio walked the Oregon trail at the age of 60something after she at the age of 67 was the first woman to walk the AT alone in 1955, walking the AT and the Oregon trail are on my bucket list
Jacquelyne Johnson that’s crazy to hear since I’m 60! Just woke up full of aches and pains doing nothing at all ...how long did it take your grandma yo walk the trail?
Diving to Portland, on I-84, along the Columbus Gorge, you can't but help but notice the wagon ruts alongside your travels! Those ruts are still there to be seen, today!
I live in Southern Illinois in a county that borders the Mississippi. Here, in the Shawnee National Forest one can observe very old, deep - wagon wheel ruts that persist today.
@@edwardjackson1418 , yes. I was hiking in woodland area here about 30 ago for the first discovery, then I started looking, from higher areas, figuring out how a wagon could of got on in this rolling hill, & bluff terrain..(imagining wagons seeking water, or the Mississippi etc., ) and we located more over the years, one trail of deep ruts being about a quarter mile from my home.
Thank you for this program....I used every year as a VHS/DVD as a source for our O.T. simulation. I really missed not having it for the students to see landmarks, hear journal quotes and discussions of the experiences on the trail. Thanks for making it available again.
I've driven through the Willamette Valley and because of the climate and quality of soil those people must've felt like they'd just walked through hell to get to heaven. Such a beautiful area. The original Fort Walla Walla, because of modern dams, is now under water. I own 6 acres 7 miles up the Snake River from the convergence of the Snake and Columbua rivers, part of Lewis and Clark's route.
Growing up in eastern oregon near Echo and walla walla I was able to visit the Whitman mission and several other rut sites. The history is wonderful. Thank you for posting this video from my childhood. I'm a 30+ year old man... this video is crucial to our history.
Just have to laugh at the comment, ‘Until then, no Americans had been there.’ I just drove through beautiful Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and then watched the beautiful film, ‘Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee’…my perspective has changed…of course, the First Americans had already been there😊
This documentary is straight up fire 🔥 very informative and relaxing to watch. No crazy background music or editing like you get with modern documentaries. Thank you for uploading
oxe are strong beyond most peoples comprehension, i've seen a big bull total a pickup truck scratching it's self, it looked like it got broadsided by a tank. my old grand daddy said that they break wagon tongues and tackle and plows, he also said that people got injured, maimed and kilt from plowing with them, (plowing with one). He said that oxe have to be trained to not pull to hard and that not pulling hard pisses them off
One of the reasons I like this documentary,is because it's relaxing to watch. No drama, no crazy music. Just informative about the Oregon trail. This is an important part of American history. This should be taught to all grades,k-12. People wanting to travel despite all the hardship says a lot. This is very important. And I suggest people watch this documentary. Cuz it's very informative.
Just thinking of how people's diaries have preserved the history of the trail and other places that we can read. Just imagine if it was on a DVD or vhs or even a thumb drive. It would all be lost.
Thankfully we still have museum and libraries but its still amazing what's turning up in peoples lofts to this day and uploaded to the internet for ever for us all to share and download etc. I always wonder when I see disasters like fires and earthquakes how much history may have been lost in that one event of say an house burnt to the ground, yet also some cause the finding of a long last historical treasure too. But I agree maybe the internet does have some good uses, but I swear it's turning society's brains to mush with the other 70% of nonsense it provides lol
Something I found out was why the people trudged on to Oregon City rather than settle in Grande Round Valley or the number of sweet water areas. The answer was that the place you could register your land claim was there in Oregon City!
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Thank you for uploading this documentary. I've loved this type of history for a long time. Keep up the good work. I think what's important is that these people were told that they couldn't go across the Oregon trail, but they somehow made it and that says a lot. Despite the storms, the disease, the hunger, the thirst they made it. And there's a lesson in that just because someone is told they can't just not mean they can't do it. They can do anything they put their mind to it. And these people just wanted a better life and they were able to do it . Think about the lesson that this teaches us. Just because You're told you can't do something. Does not mean you can't do it. You can do it. You can put your mind to anything and accomplish anything.
My 2nd Great Grandfather was on the trail with his family in 1845. They decided to travel on Meek’s Cutoff going S of Mt Hood. The group were stranded there, more people died than at The Donner Party. (Earlier too) My 2nd Great Grandmother died there. She’s in an unmarked grave near The Dalles. The family went on to Portland, the year it was founded. My Great Grandfather was 5 at the time. My 2nd GG was a blacksmith and farrier. He opened a shop at 1st & Morrison. He received a square mile land grant in S Portland and his name is still well known in Portland and beyond. He was a 5th generation New Yorker, the family came to New Amsterdam in the 1600’s. Now there have been 8 generations that have lived in Oregon. Most are still in Portland and the area. Being a blacksmith I imagine he was very busy with the wagons on the trail.
This is very well produced. Admittedly, I learned a few things I had not already known. When it comes toward the end and they talked about the Barlow Trail, I remembered the day trip I took through Vancouver Parks and Recreation, circa 1990, that followed part of that section of the route. We could still see the rope "burns" on the trees used to lower the wagons down the hillside - Amazing! To think that lowering wagons by rope, as we knew vehicles were whizzing by below us on I-84, was very humbling. These people were so very dedicated. Pioneer spirit is an under-rated term! When the video came to Fort Vancouver (around 57:00), I felt an intense sense of pride in our community. The images of other forts, etc., along the trail are historical photos while those of Fort Vancouver are of the reconstructed walls and buildings, all reconstruction done on original foundations. This reconstruction took place while our sons were growing up. We made regular trips to the Fort so we got to see much of the construction happening. The buildings were built as they were originally and my sons witnessed "old-time" tools used. It was truly a fascinating time. Walking through there brings up our own family memories though certainly not as impressive of those who first passed through Fort Vancouver.
@@barbaradarnell7376 No, I meant and mean I-84! I think I know the name of the freeway between Portland, Oregon, and Biggs Junction. FYI, I've driven it multiple times from its construction even before its completion post-1963. I-84 is the ONLY freeway in Oregon along the Columbia River and stays with the Columbia River until reaching Pendleton. So you don't misunderstand, the signs along it say "I-84." U.S. 26 is the road that is known locally as the Sunset Highway and is NOT considered a freeway and is, in fact often a two-lane highway. After going through Portland, it heads towards Mt. Hood and is, in fact, used by skiers headed to the slopes. U.S. 26 has its own significance but it does not belong to my story about the day trip along part of the Oregon Trail. It's best to not "correct" someone who is very aware of what is being relayed.
I've been told that walking beside a covered wagon was preferable to riding in one! And while I grew up wearing some form of footwear all the time, I have plenty of friends who ran barefooted everywhere - even on gravel! So while we may consider that a considerable hardship, for one accustomed to going barefoot, I wonder if doing so on the Oregon Trail really was.
You're definitely correct that it was not ideal to ride in the wagon for a lot of travelers. It was very rickety and uncomfortable. However, that doesn't mean walking the entire 2,000 miles was a simple walk in the park either. Especially towards the end of it when their shoes/boots were wearing down when it was either very hot or very cold with little foot protection and people were wearing down from not having enough calories and a balanced diet to sustain them for the 6 month long walk. Not to mention very little rest. There were many cases of people who couldn't keep up that were left behind. One of the most well known ones being a man in the Donner Party named Hardkoop. He had been riding in the wagon, though was thrown out of it to ease the animal load as they were getting too weary. He was told he either had to walk or die. He ended up going to the river with feet so swollen they had split open and likely died there as they left him and he was never heard from again. There were also many issues with people who had sickness forced to walk who were in no shape to walk who would just collapse from exhaustion.
I grew up poor and was always barefooted outside playing and riding my bike. I'm going to be 39 and not poor now but my kids prefer to be barefooted on the spring and summer and wear sandles or flip flops when we go out to the store or when they go to their omas for the weekend. They have always been this way and they are 15, 11 and almost 9 two girls and my boy.
I know something of what it's like to walk that much. When I first retired, to keep in shape, I walked 5 miles every day, 2 hours, 2500+ steps. Multiply that times 3 and you have an emigrant's day. They didn't do 15 miles a day in the mountains, some days they were lucky to make 3.
You walked 5 miles with 2500 paces???? You must have EXTREMELY LONG legs. For most people one mile is about 2000 paces. If your stride is 3 feet long, then 1760 paces to a mile!
Iam from India. I heard about oregon trail. It was interesting journy of eastern american to western side of America. It was not normal journy it was a expedition. I surely belive western side of America until this time not properly expedict. Geographicaly that place is natural wealth un discoverd gold mines
Blessed to grow up in Idaho on the snake river before moving to Oregon after high school, been here ever since. What amazes me, is that we were founded and established by some of the hardest people to ever live and we have become one of the weakest, whackiest states in the whole country, sad.
Weak people are everywhere. I saw it in IL with the recent downpour and flooded basements here. People wanted their insurance companies to come clean it up for them and talked about suing their insurance companies. My basement flooded too but I can't relate to that mindset. We always just cleaned it up and became careful of what we stored down there and how. Massive destruction I understand but for most us it was just a nuisance.
I really don’t know how these people made it. Severely malnourished of vitamins, minerals, protein, and everything else! I would have been the one whose family did not go. I’ll stay home, thanks!
The grass is greener on the other side, it's so true in all of us I think, it's that sense of change, even now as an old man I still think that way, I think it's just in our nature, especially in those days when there was so much land just waiting to be taken. It's the spirit that moves us. 🇺🇸🙏
First welfare generation who’s government gave European white Americans free LAND and boots so they could pick themselves up by their bootstraps while at the same time denying blacks the right to the same free pair of boots and ironically telling them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps …and when they did just that despite their Evil demonic ways their envy and jealousy took over and they burned down all black towns and murdered Inited States citizens who DARED to thrive inspite of their demonic oppressors
I am grateful that I live in modern times with plumbing and electricity and refrigeration of food and devices invented to view programs like this. I do not feel superior..just appreciative. I could not even imagine living over 75 years ago when many apartments and houses in the rural parts of this great country did not have electricity but had to heat with coal and wood and newspapers...but we were getting away from that..some older members of my mom's family spoke of having coal bins that kept bags of coal for the heaters..and sometimes kerosene was used..too. and of outhouses for bathrooms..too. I think indoor bathrooms became the norm for most homes in america..thank goodness for that.
I could not imagine the struggle of having to keep the basic necessities such as cleanliness and hygiene..I'm sure they found ways..and I'm sure with some of them that was not a high priority..as getting to the west was the point of all this traveling. They had much food and supplies. But many times they had to discard a lot of stuff in order to travel over deserts and mountain ranges because the animals pulling these wagon trains could only carry a certain amount after many miles.
Fantastic documentary... very well done!!! I think that the people of today's generation would not be able to even accomplish a fraction of what the immigrants did. Those people were definitely very strong in body, mind and soul.
Amen. History was 1 of the classes I did well in. So I became a history buff as a kid. I talked to my Grandparents about the 1930’s depression. I learned what made them who they were. They are gone now. But do you think my kids have any idea what it would be like to eat cornbread and beans every night for 2 or 3 years. Fresh greens in the summer when they grow next to the creek. Meat once a year when the man who’s land you sharecropped shared a old sow. My kids have no idea what it is like to be poor. Hell I don’t know. But I could live it through my grandparents. And I saw how my grandfathers didn’t throw a card board box in the trash. I mean today’s 30’s generation. Hell - they don’t have a clue. A CLUE!!!
@@charliefoster3221 I like the story of the French sending over brides to the new country of Canada. That's how my g. G.g. g. Grandmother ended up in Canada.
I was wondering if there was a movie about the orgon trail a couldn’t watch the REAL movie but this is basically the same thing Tysm for making these kind of videos there SO INTERESTING TO WATCH!!!! Keep up the amazing work you probably have work VERY hard on these kind of things and we really appreciate your hard work Ty!!!!!
Today, most of us are born with literally no right to be here, not 1 square foot of land we can call our own, or even have a right to stand on without renting it from someone else. And even if you can eventually afford a home lot, there are endless laws and codes you have to obey, and eternal taxes, which means you really don't own it. And the gov can come up with a reason to simply take it from you, if they really want to.
@@jameseverett4976 and, with the coming “great reset” we will “own nothing and be happy.” Sounds very American to me. We have given away our legacy via apathy.
As hardship as it was when you think of working 30 years to pay a mortgage for a home you barley get to enjoy being at the trail sounds like a 6month adventure worth trying. However it was much more then just walking 2000 miles it was having enough money for all the food then carrying it and hoping nothing bad made you lose it all or kill you.
Around 2008 I was looking at land in Alaska - you could buy it at $1000/acre outside Fairbanks. With Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend (they pay you annually "simply for living there") the state would effectively buy you over an acre a year!
Well, still no reason to thumb it down, but there are other nations in the world! So I'd make the appeal merely from historical significance in general, I'm English and found it fascinating.
The Barlow Road crosses my property between Eagle Creek/FosterFarm and Oregon City. Metal detecting turned up no artifacts aged to 1840-1880. However, I removed a lot of modern detritis, including some several marbles. There was not much left to fall off the pioneers wagons after 3000's miles of gouncing around, being disassembled and re-assembled, rafted, soaked wagon wheels, tarred hubs, replaced axles, etc. There is supposed to be a stone with "7" carved on it. Seven indicating miles to OC. I havent found it yet... ĺ
I don't see how they did it..along with all the dirt and diseases..especially cholera by drinking tainted water. They seem to drink the same water they bathed in. And even though hative Americans were helpful at first..you can't really blame them for becoming hostile once they realized the wagon trains were killing off their source of food and clothing..which was the buffalo. The native Americans respected the land..the pioneers set out to conquer and settle..and the native Americans paid a terrible price.
Thanks! This particular video gets the bulk of attention as far as the RUclips algorithm goes, but there's quite a few super fascinating VHS tapes that I've found over the years, and this channel has been fun compiling!
@@DrRIPVHS I was thinking, if you wanted to monetize this channel more, you could possibly put affiliate links to VHS to digital converters in the description. Thanks for your efforts!
And some of them had heard of gold and wanted to take part in the gold rush..and many of them just wanted a new start..with their families. Indeed a rugged existence.
The Gold rush of 1848 had folks arriving primarily by ship arriving in San Francisco. Ship travel took 6 months so some just sold everything, bought their best supplies and horse to match and off they went!
They make it sound more heroic and less like they were not satisfied they pushed the Native Americans out of the east coast and thought they had "the right" and also deserved the west coast and everything in between as well. Yes, it took guts to settle out west and it was dangerous. It should have been! Especially with any Native Americans fighting to keep more white people out. At least they had to really earn the Native American communal land that the U.S. was now telling them it was theirs. It has happened all throughout history but people pushing their way into an area that was occupied by people already and then completely taking over and running the indigenous people out of where they had lived for thousands of years. Just because it appeared empty to them doesn't mean it was and that they had the right to it. They never address that in school or in most history shows. Well, it sure was nice of them to "give the Indians the wasteland". Jesus. Colonization is only ok if that land is free of other people. Like the Vikings that went to Greenland and Iceland.
Those Vikings you mentioned, they were known invaders,raping and pillaging as they traveled. Not a good ethnic group to lump in when talking about the native people of America.
The Dalles are still very much a pit-stop for travelers. My family and I live in Washington state, and we stop at the Dalles every road trip going to Oregon, California... etc...
I am the daughter of William Barlow Boscow who his mother Beulah Barlow was the grsanddaughter of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow...one of the men who headed the Oregon Trail. Grandma Beulah and her husband, my grandpa Frank Boscow lived in the Dalles.
It’s kinda wild listening to the terminology used just a few decades ago. Things like “no American had ever seen” when there were millions of Americans living there for centuries.
Far too many of their descendants are left-wing ingrates who wish they could go back in time to gun down all the settlers in order to "save the poor Native Americans". That's not hyperbole either: they shout this dreck on Twitter.
Do most people have any idea of how lucky we are to have this modern technology and all that stuff. The point I'm making is that we're taking the current society that we have shouldn't be taken for granted. Because when you think about what these people did and they didn't have modern technology. That's a reality we need to face. Don't take this tech for granted.
I had 4 sets of great-grandparents who came on the trail. One grandmother was so sure she'd die on the trail, she had their wagon carry her coffin made of "hard wood." She made it to Oregon. Another great grandpa ended up with another family joining his wagon after a storm destroyed their wagon. When he got to the WillametteValley, he had one dollar to his name. I'm grateful for them. They paved a way for me and my family.
How cool to be descended from 4 sets of Oregon Trail immigrants!
I'm curious as to what he did with the one dollar he showed up with!!!
That’s amazing family history
Interesting. My grandparents took the train to Oregon a generation or so later.
@@dianelove8147 I think the people who lost their wagon must of had money. He was thankful for them.
I grew up in a small town in western Nebraska and the Oregon trail tracked right through our small High School we learned as children. As a child I fantasized about this fact and felt it was a metaphor or omen to seek my future by learning and studying as hard as I could and I would be rewarded by following a path to a life I wanted. I'm a Geezer now, retired physician, interventional cardiologist and amazed and content on where this path took me. Ruts from The Trail are still visible outside town and in the Ash Hollow area.
My family came to Nebraska on the Trail and homesteaded in the Sandhills satisfied this land was as good as any so "let's stop here." I understand their hardships to a degree and inherited the immigrant mentality and toughness that was passed down to future generations by these courageous, adventuresome folks. The culture of those homesteaders hadn't changed much I realize in retrospect as I experienced it as a child in the early 1950's and I'm now in my 70's.
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Nebraska is such a lovely historical state. Lived there for a short time but it was so easy to drive somewhere and be transported back in time.
I saw those ruts just outside Grand Island and again in the Sandhills! I was amazed at how they still existed, must be so many travelled, it it was truly packed down into rock form.
Thank you for sharing such a fantastic story about your family.
How strange is it that we are watching a piece of history, filmed with a piece of history, on a piece of future history.
This may be one of my favorite comments. And we can even add a layer: "Watching a piece of history, filmed with a piece of history, recorded onto a piece of history (VHS), on a piece of history."
The fact this comment is 9 months old makes it History 😂
I moved to Oregon after living 66 years in Los Angeles in 2020. My people were from Colorado by the way of West Virginia and New Mexico that migrated during the great depression looking for the opportunities Los Angeles offered. Mistakenly I thought Oregon would be an extension of CA. It wasn't long before I got here that I discovered that Oregonians, true Oregonians, here generations since they came through the South Pass to the Willamette Valley where I presently live, these descendants of pioneers were a different breed truly, I swear you can see their lineage oozing from every cell in their bodies. And when I inquire, sure enough. It is so interesting.
I watched this after seeing the Paramount show "1883" about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. This old documentary doesn't get into a lot of drama. I like how it's based on the pioneers' actual diaries.
Me too! Just finished it. It brought me here also. So fascinating!
the man who said farmers didn't know how to hunt didn't know farmers- most were still hunting when I grew up in the 60s...
That's awesome that you knew all the farmers in the 1840s.
Walking to Oregon.
I cannot fathom the idea of this…
Totally awe inspiring.
Grandma Gatewood from Ohio walked the Oregon trail at the age of 60something after she at the age of 67 was the first woman to walk the AT alone in 1955, walking the AT and the Oregon trail are on my bucket list
Jacquelyne Johnson that’s crazy to hear since I’m 60! Just woke up full of aches and pains doing nothing at all ...how long did it take your grandma yo walk the trail?
Wow that’s Awesome people were different back then we don’t makem like that anymore GodBless ❤️🙏
@@Lora_M_NY same here 😂
What is the AT?
@@tilesetter1953 Appalachian trail maybe?
What a documentary, came here watching after watching the show “1883” ,“1923” and “Yellowstone” .
Same here... 👋
same here 1883 made me come here
Me too!
BOTH ARE ALSO GREAT!
Story of the Oregon Trail Is close to my heart. Literally related to Meriwether.
Diving to Portland, on I-84, along the Columbus Gorge, you can't but help but notice the wagon ruts alongside your travels! Those ruts are still there to be seen, today!
I live in Southern Illinois in a county that borders the Mississippi. Here, in the Shawnee National Forest one can observe very old, deep - wagon wheel ruts that persist today.
@@katiemoyer8679 Goes to show the earth can bear scares of the past for a very long time
@@edwardjackson1418 , yes. I was hiking in woodland area here about 30 ago for the first discovery, then I started looking, from higher areas, figuring out how a wagon could of got on in this rolling hill, & bluff terrain..(imagining wagons seeking water, or the Mississippi etc., ) and we located more over the years, one trail of deep ruts being about a quarter mile from my home.
@@katiemoyer8679 Absolutely amazing!
Wow that’s so cool
Thank you for this program....I used every year as a VHS/DVD as a source for our O.T. simulation. I really missed not having it for the students to see landmarks, hear journal quotes and discussions of the experiences on the trail. Thanks for making it available again.
I've driven through the Willamette Valley and because of the climate and quality of soil those people must've felt like they'd just walked through hell to get to heaven. Such a beautiful area.
The original Fort Walla Walla, because of modern dams, is now under water.
I own 6 acres 7 miles up the Snake River from the convergence of the Snake and Columbua rivers, part of Lewis and Clark's route.
My great grandma on my Dad's side was born in 1860. She was a baby when traveling the Oregon trail with her family.
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Interesting
@@MrJamesmaco have some respect.
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Growing up in eastern oregon near Echo and walla walla I was able to visit the Whitman mission and several other rut sites. The history is wonderful. Thank you for posting this video from my childhood. I'm a 30+ year old man... this video is crucial to our history.
Ahhh, your still a kid !! 😁
Bacon and Bread are my two favorite food groups!
It's an inborn craving. Only problem is it was all SALT pork.
Meat and tater man here. Hold the soy.😉
What a great video.. It used to be..you had to read about these times.. To see reenactment is so much more.. Thanks
Just have to laugh at the comment, ‘Until then, no Americans had been there.’ I just drove through beautiful Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and then watched the beautiful film, ‘Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee’…my perspective has changed…of course, the First Americans had already been there😊
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I thought the same thing.
Same
This documentary is straight up fire 🔥 very informative and relaxing to watch. No crazy background music or editing like you get with modern documentaries. Thank you for uploading
They perpetuate a few long-debunked myths as facts though.
oxe are strong beyond most peoples comprehension, i've seen a big bull total a pickup truck scratching it's self, it looked like it got broadsided by a tank. my old grand daddy said that they break wagon tongues and tackle and plows, he also said that people got injured, maimed and kilt from plowing with them, (plowing with one). He said that oxe have to be trained to not pull to hard and that not pulling hard pisses them off
Well said amen
So true they were ole saying work horses
overqualified for the job. That must have sucked for the oxe, but at least it meant a little less toil for them.
"Kilt?"
I totally agree Rusty Russ, I love watching shows about the Oregon trail and life on the prarie
One of the reasons I like this documentary,is because it's relaxing to watch. No drama, no crazy music. Just informative about the Oregon trail. This is an important part of American history. This should be taught to all grades,k-12. People wanting to travel despite all the hardship says a lot. This is very important. And I suggest people watch this documentary. Cuz it's very informative.
Just thinking of how people's diaries have preserved the history of the trail and other places that we can read. Just imagine if it was on a DVD or vhs or even a thumb drive. It would all be lost.
Thankfully we still have museum and libraries but its still amazing what's turning up in peoples lofts to this day and uploaded to the internet for ever for us all to share and download etc. I always wonder when I see disasters like fires and earthquakes how much history may have been lost in that one event of say an house burnt to the ground, yet also some cause the finding of a long last historical treasure too. But I agree maybe the internet does have some good uses, but I swear it's turning society's brains to mush with the other 70% of nonsense it provides lol
@@ScoopDogg You are so right about the 70% of trash on the internet. But that percentage is for brain-dead idiots.
Something I found out was why the people trudged on to Oregon City rather than settle in Grande Round Valley or the number of sweet water areas. The answer was that the place you could register your land claim was there in Oregon City!
Oregon City was founded by Dr. John McLoughlin, the “Father of Oregon,” who encouraged settling of the Willamette Valley.
It really took bravery for people to go out there.
The Oregon trail was transphobic. There was almost no trans representation on the trail. Pathetic
I Love od VHS series from the 80s and 90s! Thanks for the upload from Germany.!
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My relatives the Sergeants (and Saylors) settled in McMinnville Oregon and are legends (much written about) for their (pioneer) Oregon trail exploits.
Very cool!
Hello from Florence, Oregon ! On the Oregon Coast I recently retired here.
Amazing how they endured such a journey. Absolutely Beautiful here !
Thank you for uploading this documentary. I've loved this type of history for a long time. Keep up the good work. I think what's important is that these people were told that they couldn't go across the Oregon trail, but they somehow made it and that says a lot. Despite the storms, the disease, the hunger, the thirst they made it. And there's a lesson in that just because someone is told they can't just not mean they can't do it. They can do anything they put their mind to it. And these people just wanted a better life and they were able to do it . Think about the lesson that this teaches us. Just because You're told you can't do something. Does not mean you can't do it. You can do it. You can put your mind to anything and accomplish anything.
My 2nd Great Grandfather was on the trail with his family in 1845. They decided to travel on Meek’s Cutoff going S of Mt Hood. The group were stranded there, more people died than at The Donner Party. (Earlier too) My 2nd Great Grandmother died there. She’s in an unmarked grave near The Dalles. The family went on to Portland, the year it was founded. My Great Grandfather was 5 at the time. My 2nd GG was a blacksmith and farrier. He opened a shop at 1st & Morrison. He received a square mile land grant in S Portland and his name is still well known in Portland and beyond. He was a 5th generation New Yorker, the family came to New Amsterdam in the 1600’s.
Now there have been 8 generations that have lived in Oregon. Most are still in Portland and the area.
Being a blacksmith I imagine he was very busy with the wagons on the trail.
What a time to be alive
Thank you for posting this video. I really enjoy this type of history.
This is very well produced. Admittedly, I learned a few things I had not already known.
When it comes toward the end and they talked about the Barlow Trail, I remembered the day trip I took through Vancouver Parks and Recreation, circa 1990, that followed part of that section of the route. We could still see the rope "burns" on the trees used to lower the wagons down the hillside - Amazing! To think that lowering wagons by rope, as we knew vehicles were whizzing by below us on I-84, was very humbling. These people were so very dedicated. Pioneer spirit is an under-rated term!
When the video came to Fort Vancouver (around 57:00), I felt an intense sense of pride in our community. The images of other forts, etc., along the trail are historical photos while those of Fort Vancouver are of the reconstructed walls and buildings, all reconstruction done on original foundations. This reconstruction took place while our sons were growing up. We made regular trips to the Fort so we got to see much of the construction happening. The buildings were built as they were originally and my sons witnessed "old-time" tools used. It was truly a fascinating time. Walking through there brings up our own family memories though certainly not as impressive of those who first passed through Fort Vancouver.
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@@DGMUSICisGOOD - wow, that is cool!
I think you ment U.S.26, being that's the modern highway near the location of the Barlow Road in the vicinity of Laurel Hill.
@@barbaradarnell7376 No, I meant and mean I-84! I think I know the name of the freeway between Portland, Oregon, and Biggs Junction. FYI, I've driven it multiple times from its construction even before its completion post-1963. I-84 is the ONLY freeway in Oregon along the Columbia River and stays with the Columbia River until reaching Pendleton. So you don't misunderstand, the signs along it say "I-84."
U.S. 26 is the road that is known locally as the Sunset Highway and is NOT considered a freeway and is, in fact often a two-lane highway. After going through Portland, it heads towards Mt. Hood and is, in fact, used by skiers headed to the slopes.
U.S. 26 has its own significance but it does not belong to my story about the day trip along part of the Oregon Trail. It's best to not "correct" someone who is very aware of what is being relayed.
I've been told that walking beside a covered wagon was preferable to riding in one! And while I grew up wearing some form of footwear all the time, I have plenty of friends who ran barefooted everywhere - even on gravel! So while we may consider that a considerable hardship, for one accustomed to going barefoot, I wonder if doing so on the Oregon Trail really was.
You're definitely correct that it was not ideal to ride in the wagon for a lot of travelers. It was very rickety and uncomfortable. However, that doesn't mean walking the entire 2,000 miles was a simple walk in the park either. Especially towards the end of it when their shoes/boots were wearing down when it was either very hot or very cold with little foot protection and people were wearing down from not having enough calories and a balanced diet to sustain them for the 6 month long walk. Not to mention very little rest. There were many cases of people who couldn't keep up that were left behind. One of the most well known ones being a man in the Donner Party named Hardkoop. He had been riding in the wagon, though was thrown out of it to ease the animal load as they were getting too weary. He was told he either had to walk or die. He ended up going to the river with feet so swollen they had split open and likely died there as they left him and he was never heard from again. There were also many issues with people who had sickness forced to walk who were in no shape to walk who would just collapse from exhaustion.
As kid we played barefoot 🦶 lot
My grandfather told me that your feet got like leather he would have known he grew up with none
I grew up poor and was always barefooted outside playing and riding my bike. I'm going to be 39 and not poor now but my kids prefer to be barefooted on the spring and summer and wear sandles or flip flops when we go out to the store or when they go to their omas for the weekend. They have always been this way and they are 15, 11 and almost 9 two girls and my boy.
There have been Olympic Runners from Africa who are used to running without shoes.
I know something of what it's like to walk that much. When I first retired, to keep in shape, I walked 5 miles every day, 2 hours, 2500+ steps. Multiply that times 3 and you have an emigrant's day. They didn't do 15 miles a day in the mountains, some days they were lucky to make 3.
You walked 5 miles with 2500 paces???? You must have EXTREMELY LONG legs. For most people one mile is about 2000 paces. If your stride is 3 feet long, then 1760 paces to a mile!
@@tilesetter1953 My bad, it's 2500 steps to the mile. 5 miles is 11,800 steps.
Well done so beautiful...thank you..they were so brave and strong.....ienjoyed this
Me too ❤️🙏
Iam from India. I heard about oregon trail. It was interesting journy of eastern american to western side of America. It was not normal journy it was a expedition. I surely belive western side of America until this time not properly expedict. Geographicaly that place is natural wealth un discoverd gold mines
Thank you for a very well done documentary. It was a most memorable & enjoyable account.
This is awesome 👌👏 I'm in the Willamette Valley now!!!
Blessed to grow up in Idaho on the snake river before moving to Oregon after high school, been here ever since. What amazes me, is that we were founded and established by some of the hardest people to ever live and we have become one of the weakest, whackiest states in the whole country, sad.
Potato heads. Lol
We're there lots of snakes..rattlers ughhh
Hard times makes hard people, hard people make a way for easy times. Easy times makes for weak people, weak people will be cause for hard times..
Start voting for the things your ancestors fought for instead of the looney bin trying to destroy your heritage
Weak people are everywhere. I saw it in IL with the recent downpour and flooded basements here. People wanted their insurance companies to come clean it up for them and talked about suing their insurance companies. My basement flooded too but I can't relate to that mindset. We always just cleaned it up and became careful of what we stored down there and how. Massive destruction I understand but for most us it was just a nuisance.
Excellent quality for a VHS copy. Thanks for making the effort.
If you're ever in Baker City, OR, stop in and visit the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
I really don’t know how these people made it. Severely malnourished of vitamins, minerals, protein, and everything else! I would have been the one whose family did not go. I’ll stay home, thanks!
They then went about killing the indigenous people.
@@davidc3839 indigent people are better off that way
Sweetie was different time then u would have made it GodBless ❤️🙏
@@bradleysmall2230 Small is a good name for you.
@@davidc3839 lol- trump 2024
This was an excellent documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it ! Thanks for sharing.... :)
Love this history of our nation 🇺🇸
The grass is greener on the other side, it's so true in all of us I think, it's that sense of change, even now as an old man I still think that way, I think it's just in our nature, especially in those days when there was so much land just waiting to be taken. It's the spirit that moves us. 🇺🇸🙏
Pretty random selection of videos. Thank you
There is your greatest Generation. Enough said.
Yes Sir!
And proud that my ancestors were a part of that great migration.
Yes Sir GodBless ❤️🙏 people getting weaker by the day
nah, the revolutionary colonists were greater.
No words needed
First welfare generation who’s government gave European white Americans free LAND and boots so they could pick themselves up by their bootstraps while at the same time denying blacks the right to the same free pair of boots and ironically telling them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps …and when they did just that despite their Evil demonic ways their envy and jealousy took over and they burned down all black towns and murdered Inited States citizens who DARED to thrive inspite of their demonic oppressors
I am grateful that I live in modern times with plumbing and electricity and refrigeration of food and devices invented to view programs like this. I do not feel superior..just appreciative. I could not even imagine living over 75 years ago when many apartments and houses in the rural parts of this great country did not have electricity but had to heat with coal and wood and newspapers...but we were getting away from that..some older members of my mom's family spoke of having coal bins that kept bags of coal for the heaters..and sometimes kerosene was used..too. and of outhouses for bathrooms..too. I think indoor bathrooms became the norm for most homes in america..thank goodness for that.
WOW, I loved watching this.
Me too
@@rustyruss2962 #MeToo. Truthfully. 😉
Thanks again for sharing. Enjoying this historic trek. Love Oregon. USA. Kind regards Naill O'Connell Dundalk Ireland 🇨🇮🇺🇸🇮🇱❤️🌄🌃
I could not imagine the struggle of having to keep the basic necessities such as cleanliness and hygiene..I'm sure they found ways..and I'm sure with some of them that was not a high priority..as getting to the west was the point of all this traveling. They had much food and supplies. But many times they had to discard a lot of stuff in order to travel over deserts and mountain ranges because the animals pulling these wagon trains could only carry a certain amount after many miles.
Fantastic documentary... very well done!!! I think that the people of today's generation would not be able to even accomplish a fraction of what the immigrants did. Those people were definitely very strong in body, mind and soul.
We get upset if our internet goes down for an hour :-)
to be fair they were living their present like we are now. they didnt have a choice to think they are lacking - they just used what they had.
Emigrants*
Please speak for yourself, Holly. I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to meet your own lofty proclamations.
True but they only did what they had to do.. just as we would now if we had to. Don’t know why people have to compare all the time.
I wish more younger people would watch this we are losing our past GodBless ❤️🙏
Yup, you got it. I am Canadian and enjoy studying your history. It is interesting.
Amen. History was 1 of the classes I did well in. So I became a history buff as a kid. I talked to my Grandparents about the 1930’s depression. I learned what made them who they were. They are gone now. But do you think my kids have any idea what it would be like to eat cornbread and beans every night for 2 or 3 years. Fresh greens in the summer when they grow next to the creek. Meat once a year when the man who’s land you sharecropped shared a old sow.
My kids have no idea what it is like to be poor. Hell I don’t know. But I could live it through my grandparents. And I saw how my grandfathers didn’t throw a card board box in the trash.
I mean today’s 30’s generation. Hell - they don’t have a clue. A CLUE!!!
@@charliefoster3221 I like the story of the French sending over brides to the new country of Canada. That's how my g. G.g. g. Grandmother ended up in Canada.
One of my favourite books.
Loving every minute of this @ 22, cheers🇨🇦
My folks lost their past across the Atlantic. Y'all will always know yours.
Bacon every meal for 6 months straight?? Sign me up.
You wouldn’t die from dysentery…you’d die from heart disease lol 😆
I was wondering if there was a movie about the orgon trail a couldn’t watch the REAL movie but this is basically the same thing Tysm for making these kind of videos there SO INTERESTING TO WATCH!!!! Keep up the amazing work you probably have work VERY hard on these kind of things and we really appreciate your hard work Ty!!!!!
Just watch 1830 - The prequel of YellowStone.. What a great story!
1883
Excellent presentation!!!
Imagine knowing there was some free land out there and all you had to do was get there and claim it.....
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Today, most of us are born with literally no right to be here, not 1 square foot of land we can call our own, or even have a right to stand on without renting it from someone else. And even if you can eventually afford a home lot, there are endless laws and codes you have to obey, and eternal taxes, which means you really don't own it. And the gov can come up with a reason to simply take it from you, if they really want to.
@@jameseverett4976 and, with the coming “great reset” we will “own nothing and be happy.” Sounds very American to me. We have given away our legacy via apathy.
@@suggadeg that is, if we live through the virus/vaccine purge.
As hardship as it was when you think of working 30 years to pay a mortgage for a home you barley get to enjoy being at the trail sounds like a 6month adventure worth trying. However it was much more then just walking 2000 miles it was having enough money for all the food then carrying it and hoping nothing bad made you lose it all or kill you.
Around 2008 I was looking at land in Alaska - you could buy it at $1000/acre outside Fairbanks. With Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend (they pay you annually "simply for living there") the state would effectively buy you over an acre a year!
Why would anyone give a thumbs down? Any American should treasure this information!
Well, still no reason to thumb it down, but there are other nations in the world!
So I'd make the appeal merely from historical significance in general, I'm English and found it fascinating.
@Jeff Smith Great reply Jeff!
They hate America
Great work
Why do u care
You're a legend, Dr.Rip
You think this VHS generation couldn't handle this, wait till 2022
55:18 imagine watching two young kids drowning and you can't help them 😢 my god the heartbreak these ppl endured
Unimaginable
A brilliant documentary,I felt I was on the trail with them.😢
I have this DVD. 🇺🇸👍
what year did they make it?
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There are two dates.
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That means we are both older haha 😂
The Barlow Road crosses my property between Eagle Creek/FosterFarm and Oregon City. Metal detecting turned up no artifacts aged to 1840-1880. However, I removed a lot of modern detritis, including some several marbles.
There was not much left to fall off the pioneers wagons after 3000's miles of gouncing around, being disassembled and re-assembled, rafted, soaked wagon wheels, tarred hubs, replaced axles, etc.
There is supposed to be a stone with "7" carved on it. Seven indicating miles to OC. I havent found it yet...
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Informative video. Full of history.
I don't see how they did it..along with all the dirt and diseases..especially cholera by drinking tainted water. They seem to drink the same water they bathed in. And even though hative Americans were helpful at first..you can't really blame them for becoming hostile once they realized the wagon trains were killing off their source of food and clothing..which was the buffalo. The native Americans respected the land..the pioneers set out to conquer and settle..and the native Americans paid a terrible price.
Been to the Oregon trail museum in Oregon City, Oregon where the trail ended. Wonderful and very informative
Damn! This channel is wild! Came for this video. But looked at the others and man! What a variety of interesting old tapes!
Thanks! This particular video gets the bulk of attention as far as the RUclips algorithm goes, but there's quite a few super fascinating VHS tapes that I've found over the years, and this channel has been fun compiling!
@@DrRIPVHS I was thinking, if you wanted to monetize this channel more, you could possibly put affiliate links to VHS to digital converters in the description. Thanks for your efforts!
This was an awesome film, not like something your taught in school. Thank you I enjoyed this show
Most awesome history pain hardships and successes of this pioneers many do not know how to appreciate
I live not far from the end of the trail so lucky to live here it's so beautiful
And some of them had heard of gold and wanted to take part in the gold rush..and many of them just wanted a new start..with their families. Indeed a rugged existence.
The Gold rush of 1848 had folks arriving primarily by ship arriving in San Francisco. Ship travel took 6 months so some just sold everything, bought their best supplies and horse to match and off they went!
They make it sound more heroic and less like they were not satisfied they pushed the Native Americans out of the east coast and thought they had "the right" and also deserved the west coast and everything in between as well. Yes, it took guts to settle out west and it was dangerous. It should have been! Especially with any Native Americans fighting to keep more white people out. At least they had to really earn the Native American communal land that the U.S. was now telling them it was theirs. It has happened all throughout history but people pushing their way into an area that was occupied by people already and then completely taking over and running the indigenous people out of where they had lived for thousands of years. Just because it appeared empty to them doesn't mean it was and that they had the right to it. They never address that in school or in most history shows. Well, it sure was nice of them to "give the Indians the wasteland". Jesus. Colonization is only ok if that land is free of other people. Like the Vikings that went to Greenland and Iceland.
Those Vikings you mentioned, they were known invaders,raping and pillaging as they traveled. Not a good ethnic group to lump in when talking about the native people of America.
Thanks for this! :)
I remember watching this in school
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
Imagine how much better America was back then. _Before liberalism._
*Hardships be damned! I'd trade today's country for the 1800's in a heartbeat!*
This should be told in history books
Excellent. Thank you.
Who here aswell after playing the renewed game;
The Oregon Trail
After all these years...I still died of dysentery!
I think about this every time I’m flying over a single state. Being from Boise, I see the very places they walked and realize I couldn’t do it.
Excellent, well done, and the music is very QUIET!!!!!!!!!!
_"I was part of that first wagon train in July 1836. I almost lost my Corvette along the way."_
*- Joe Biden*
The Dalles are still very much a pit-stop for travelers. My family and I live in Washington state, and we stop at the Dalles every road trip going to Oregon, California... etc...
I am the daughter of William Barlow Boscow who his mother Beulah Barlow was the grsanddaughter of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow...one of the men who headed the Oregon Trail. Grandma Beulah and her husband, my grandpa Frank Boscow lived in the Dalles.
I had a great great grandmother who died just outside Oregon City coming to Oregon in a covered wagon.
So cool. We camp Mt Hood every year. We live an hour from from the Dalles
Very interesting - thank you!
This is a story about stealing land
Thanks for sharing
My family all stayed in upstate New York....we are still here...
It’s kinda wild listening to the terminology used just a few decades ago. Things like “no American had ever seen” when there were millions of Americans living there for centuries.
i love the oregon trail so this video is a pure gem
Any documentary’s or movies made these days are full of subliminal political or liberal themes
We ALL have a lot to be proud of in our ancestors. Talk about guts.
Far too many of their descendants are left-wing ingrates who wish they could go back in time to gun down all the settlers in order to "save the poor Native Americans". That's not hyperbole either: they shout this dreck on Twitter.
Good documentary. No propaganda, thank you.
Manifest Destiny IS propaganda‼️🥴
I made the trip in 2017. Never thought I'd survive.
Do most people have any idea of how lucky we are to have this modern technology and all that stuff. The point I'm making is that we're taking the current society that we have shouldn't be taken for granted. Because when you think about what these people did and they didn't have modern technology. That's a reality we need to face. Don't take this tech for granted.
I read Francis Parkman’s “ Oregon Trail as a Junior in High School and it was very bad. This is a better description of how difficult it was.
Watching from New Zealand
Oregon is the part of the US most like New Zealand.