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The Oregon Trail
#7620742 - 11/11/07 12:17 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Back in the old days, people would pack up their families and head to Oregon in a damn horse-pulled wagon. At like 4 miles per-hour. It is ubsurd..
What if they were from New York, and had a dream that Oregon was the place to be. It must have taken them Months to get there, almost a full year. They would be dieing from diseases and starvation just to go to the wonderful place of Oregon.
I have gone cross the entire country before by interstate, and it is damn brutal after several days. What the hell were those people thinking? To actually bring their children on such a journey must take a lot of, what is the word?
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balls?
it sounds absurd now, but honestly back then, if you were barely getting by and you heard that land was there for the taking, all you had to do was get there, and you are told all sorts of great things, would you not make the trip in the attempt to better the lives of your family? not knowing just how tough it would really be?
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I was tripping with my buddy and his girlgriend one time and all this girl was tripping so hard all she talked about was riding in a wagon on the oregon trail. It got pretty annoying after a while haha
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620789 - 11/11/07 12:31 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Were they claiming there was free land to be had in Oregon?
Something must have drove the trail, and it certainly wasn't gold.
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im pretty sure that they were told that it was frontier land and that it was either incredibly cheap, or free.
i mean hell. if there was still frontier land left that needed colonizing.... i would go. get away from all of this shit? hell yes.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620831 - 11/11/07 12:42 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620840 - 11/11/07 12:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I must admit, I have been to almost every state in the US and Oregon fits me the nicest. Why was that trail blazed though? Oregon is still mostly unpopulated other than a few cities that grew small. Why wasn't it the California trail, or the Washington trail, because both of those states are very populated..
How did those crazy bastards get through the mountains with just a wagon and a horse?
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man i forgot all about that game! i used to play it on DOS in elementary school.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620844 - 11/11/07 12:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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leftysurprise said: man i forgot all about that game! i used to play it on DOS in elementary school.
lol I totally remember playing that game!
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620846 - 11/11/07 12:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the oregon trail itself is way ballsy travleing across the columbia river gorge you can retrace the trail. some big ass mountais and damn steep terrain up that way. near inpassible.
kudos to pioneers
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Same here, with the huge ass floppy disks. That game was literally my 5th grade year in school.
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Quote:
GGreatOne234 said: I must admit, I have been to almost every state in the US and Oregon fits me the nicest. Why was that trail blazed though? Oregon is still mostly unpopulated other than a few cities that grew small. Why wasn't it the California trail, or the Washington trail, because both of those states are very populated..
How did those crazy bastards get through the mountains with just a wagon and a horse?
that is a very good question. one that i would like to know as well.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620862 - 11/11/07 12:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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seirra nevada
thants why. but there was a CA trail donnar party? any of this ringing any bells?
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Quote:
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leftysurprise said: man i forgot all about that game! i used to play it on DOS in elementary school.
lol I totally remember playing that game!
how old are you?
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620867 - 11/11/07 12:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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amazon trail FTW
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CokedUpHobit64 said: Same here, with the huge ass floppy disks. That game was literally my 5th grade year in school.
i was addicted to that and "carmen sandiego". OH and what the hell was that game with the frogs?!?!
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620869 - 11/11/07 12:54 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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frogger?
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7620880 - 11/11/07 12:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ha, carmen sandiego, that game kinda sucked.
the oregon trail game was better i thought, though i don't remember ever actually making it to Oregon without my whole family dieing. lol:)
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Getting to Oregon in the end and having to go down the river was more intense than peaking on acid.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: notapillow]
#7620907 - 11/11/07 01:06 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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notapillow said: frogger?
was that it? i wasnt sure if that was frogger or just some ripoff of frogger.
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GGreatOne234 said: ha, carmen sandiego, that game kinda sucked.
the oregon trail game was better i thought, though i don't remember ever actually making it to Oregon without my whole family dieing. lol:)
ya really. i dont think i ever made it either. still fun trying though. i think almost every time i crossed a river, someone in my damn family drowned.... bullshit!
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7621019 - 11/11/07 02:54 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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anyone remember playing a game called dragon's key?
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Help Danlemon! Should I ford the river or pay the Indians for passage!??!?
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: twighead] 2
#15494133 - 12/10/11 02:37 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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It is too late you have already died of dysentery.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: gzuf]
#15494198 - 12/10/11 03:34 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Meanwhile you broke an axle, lost 4 oxen and Steve starved to death
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: Shroomism]
#15494201 - 12/10/11 03:35 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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All I do is play Oregon Trail and ball.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: Shroomism]
#15494203 - 12/10/11 03:36 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anyone who has spent some time in Portland will know the Oregon trail is still up and running.
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: John Nada]
#15496111 - 12/10/11 03:20 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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i am the oregon
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totally unrelated question, anyone know where i can get a copy of oregon trail that will run on windows 7?
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Re: The Oregon Trail [Re: gzuf]
#15496823 - 12/10/11 06:12 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Beat me to it.
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I remember playing that on a text based mac, then the next greatest thing was three or four versions later when you could actually shoot at things when going hunting.
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