flour, yeast (for bread) pots, pans, bowls clothes(bonnets, overalls, bandannas, flannel shirts) wagons oxen guns, gunpowder knives handcarts.
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Traveling for 5-6 months wasn't easy, especially when you could only bring a few things. A travelling family would have to provide themselves with necessary supplies to survive including:
•800 Pounds Flour 200 Pounds Sugar
25 Pounds Salt & Pepper
200 Pounds Beans
700 Pounds Bacon
100 Pounds Dried Fruit
75 Pounds Coffee
This is for a family of four for 6 months • Clothing items, like shirts, pants, socks, jackets and coats, shoes, hats, underclothes, etc. •Hunting supplies, including pistols, rifles, gunpowder, bullets, etc. •Cooking supplies, (these items were always limited) like pots, pans, silverware, knives, plates and bowls. •Medicine, and other supplies for curing illnesses and wounds. •Finally, the all important Wagon.
Rifles, pistols, gunpowder, bullets, cooking utensils such as pots and pans, bonnets, shoes, socks, usually two changes of clothes for each person, petticoats and some underclothes, flour, bacon, sugar, salt, coffee, dried fruit, spices, dried pinto beans, some grain for your animals, basic herbs and poultices, silverware, wagon, extra wagon parts such as axles and wheels, tools like shovels and forks, water barrels, fabric, needles, scissors, tobacco, lantern, oil, coils of rope, blankets and pillows.
They brought along foods such as dried fruit, beans, flour, ham, molasses (sugar), onions, rice, salt pork, tea, vinegar, bacon, biscuits, candy, coffee, and cornmeal. They brought clothing and tools such as cooking/eating utensils, plates, cups, skillets, pots, pans, kettles, water kegs, axes, canteens, rope, hunting knives, and a dutch oven. They brought firearms, bullets, and gunpowder, They also brought spices such as anise, basil, cinnamon, etc. of course they brought alum (medicine).
They bought a wagon (Conestoga, farm wagon, or covered wagon) and oxen,mules,or horses. they also brought spare axles, wagon tongues, and wheels.
Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were pioneers in every sense of the word. Along with their scriptures, they took as many provisions as could be carried either in a covered wagon, or even a handcart. Their circumstances were humble to the point of extreme poverty in many cases. As they left Nauvoo, they attempted to sell their homes in order to purchase what they needed. However, mob rule frequently prevented them from being able to sell, or only perhaps receiving a fraction of the home's worth.
The first leg of the journey took them across the Mississippi River into the Iowa territory. They settled temporarily in camps across the entire territory in order to attempt to raise crops and make further preparations for the long trek to the Salt Lake Valley.
Some of the pioneers were able to procure surveying equipment to assist them in making accurate maps of their trail. Orson Pratt invented a crude mileage counter which was attached to the axle of his wagon and counted the miles traveled every day.
Weight was a constant concern and the pioneers had to carefully balance the loads they carried in their wagons or carts. This meant they generally had to take only as much clothing as they could wear at one time, and could not usually pack heavier items such as stoves or furniture of any kind.
When provisions became scarce, the pioneers hunted when game was available, or traded at the various forts located along the trail, as well as with the occasional Native American tribes they encountered. Money received by the Mormon Battalion was sent back to their families on the trail whenever possible. However, starvation was still a frequent visitor to the pioneer camps along the way.
People brought food, water, weapons, blankets, and clothing with them.
To take more Native American land
Oregon trail, mormon Trail, Old spanish trail, and for more it is Santa fe trail, California trail i hope you take at least three of them this is your choice like you can choose Oregon trail, Santa fe trail, California trail your choice!
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The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.
About 6 months. However, if you faced anything that would delay your travel it might have taken a bit longer.
Oregon trail
It took 22 days to cross the river on the Oregon trail.
Oregon trail, mormon Trail, Old spanish trail, and for more it is Santa fe trail, California trail i hope you take at least three of them this is your choice like you can choose Oregon trail, Santa fe trail, California trail your choice!
It took about 6 months to travel the Oregon trail. It was the same for the trail to California as well.
The Oregon Trail, the Western trail, the mormom trail and the California trail during the gold rush in 1846
Some of the main reasons people left for Oregon on the Oregon Trail was for free land and a start of a better life.
Oregon Trail & Santa Fe Trail
the oregon trail
One reason a family might take the Oregon Trail might be to seek and find unclaimed to expand their land.Hope I helped!! :) (edited)
about 1 month
The Santa Fe trail was was for people who wanted to trade at Santa Fe. They would take there stuff to Santa Fe to be sold. The oregon trail was for people who were moving west.
It took between 4-16 monthes for people to get to Oregon from Independence.