American Traditions - The Oregon Trail | Narrated by Red Steagal

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@garyleibitzke4166 3 ай бұрын

First off, I'm old, and in the very early 1960's I had the opportunity to visit with the great, great grandmother of our neighbor kids. She was 102 or 103 years old and still mentally sharp. She told us about being on the Oregon Trail as a youngster. Up until then I'd only heard about it from TV shows like Wagon Train.

@bethbartlett5692 Ай бұрын

Amazing experience that must have been, for a 1st hand account. You should write her story down and pass it down to next generation.

@ann7318 Ай бұрын

I am only 70, but when I was growing up in the 1960s, I met a granddaughter of Yellow Cloud who was at Wounded Knee/Little Bighorn. She told me and some friends about her grandfather and what she knew of what happened. She had a kind of museum in her basement (I don't think that was her word for it, but I forget what she called it) with many relics and artifacts of her people. We were very amazed at her little museum, and loved her stories of the past.

@TenThumbsProductions 22 күн бұрын

Amazing

@nabillayoun 13 күн бұрын

Lucky person you are , to talk / meeting a pioneer 💜

@robertcadiz4346 4 күн бұрын

I want to hear more ❤

@kurtdanielson993 2 ай бұрын

My great-great grandfather was born in the Nebraska Territory on the trail. His mother was an Irish immigrant pregnant with him when they left Missouri. His father, as well as grandfather and uncles, were immigrants from England. Settled in Oregon in the Coquille River Valley. Tough, tough people.

@majorierusso9565 4 күн бұрын

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@JoshuaTraffanstedt 3 ай бұрын

This is actually one of the most detailed documentary of The Oregon Trail Pioneers that ive ever seen. They did a good job of explaining how they lived and what traveling might have really been like. What a crazy trip it must have been knowing you were more than likely not going to be the same sized family when you finally completed the trip. And its amazing how the entire family shared the burden from the small children all the way up to the parents and even grandparents in some occasions.

@26MECH 3 ай бұрын

Facts

@deborahjesser2028 3 ай бұрын

My third great-grandparents both died along the Oregon trail. My gr-grandfather Jabez died not too long after they set out. His wife Susannah buried him and kept going with their two teenage sons. They were both part of families who had been moving West since the early days of the colonies and seem to have been possessed by wanderlust because this was not the first time they had ventured forward to settle in the unsettled West. Susannah and her sons made it to Oregon but tragically Susannah was stricken by illness just after they had crossed into Oregon. She was buried somewhere near present-day Baker Oregon. Her two sons buried her and kept going on, and made good lives for themselves there.

@spikespa5208 2 ай бұрын

Can anyone say what year this doc was produced?

@123canadagirl 2 ай бұрын

@@spikespa5208it says 1994 at the end

@spikespa5208 2 ай бұрын

@@123canadagirl Thank you.

@johnberry8117 3 ай бұрын

The courage , determination, presperation n sheer Strength to just keep on going day after day and mile after mile was a superhuman Achievement! God Bless those Tired Souls! You had to have a Lot of Heart n passion for your own family’s future. The sacrifices were immense n almost impossible.

@lyria8469 3 ай бұрын

My great, great grandparents did it. I grew up hearing stories about how they survived the trail.

@stevenwinterhill3623 2 ай бұрын

how did they deal with Rattlesnakes on the open prairie?

@KevinG-jt7ef Ай бұрын

You should write their story, down pass it onto the next generation. I love reading American history.

@montemiller3447 2 ай бұрын

As a history buff, I dearly loved watching this amazing program!🙏❤💙 God Bless the families who immigrated to America and to the West!

@seanyglass14 2 ай бұрын

Unbelievably fascinating

@Nulife23 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful documentary! I've often wondered what it must of been like for them....thank you!

@Lisa1111 2 ай бұрын

We will never see the likes of these tough pioneers ever again. One of my favorite shows is Wagon Train.

@dicklebilly3115 Ай бұрын

That’ll be cos there’s road now 🤷

@lisamoody212 25 күн бұрын

Wagon Train is also my favorite old Western. Wagons Ho!! The late great Ward Bond. Excellent and diverse actor!

@josephspruill1212 20 күн бұрын

I have hiked more than 10k miles solo in my life time. I’m 44 now. I plan on hiking the pct this summer again. That will be another 2k miles. I went homeless to hike my first trail. So you are wrong my friend. There are ppl that still hike this world to this day. I’ve not only hiked across America on foot. But I’ve hiked across Spain as well. The longest trail in the world in 40k miles. I don’t know anyone that has completed it. There are ppl that still hike to Mecca. The list goes on and on…… so the little 2-3k across America is a cake walk compared to others is all. I hike the trail of tears on foot. Didn’t hitch hike one time.

@Neil-Jones Ай бұрын

For years I lived between Astoria and Portland Oregon. I found a small covered utility trailer and filled it full of my guitars, drums and amplifiers and headed east to Henrico County Virginia on the East End of Richmond. That was a round October 15th 2024. It was a 'God thing'. My old Buick Rainier at 223,000 mi on it and the ball joints were making noise but I knew I had to make the trip. Driving 62 1/2 mph I was the slowest vehicle on the road. I don't recall passing anybody. I slept in my car and drove for 12 to 14 hours a day. I thought much about those who had made this trip from east to west in covered wagons. The thought of it was mind-boggling. But the reality of being 73 years old and starting a new life 3000 miles away was poetic in itself. I am so glad to not live in Oregon anymore. The people are wonderful. I celebrate Thanksgiving Day after Tomorrow and I am truly thankful to God that he led me out here. I will spend the rest of my life singing songs of praise and being thankful for where God has brought me from and where he's leading me to.

@jessstone7486 6 күн бұрын

Father's never wrong, when and where He leads you. Glad you listened!

@vanessaboman8143 24 күн бұрын

Watched from the uk. Adventures from the wild west. It was interesting to know that the Indians weren't as troublesome to the wagon trains as the movies portray. As a Brit I wonder at the stamina of the immigrants back then. It's awakened an adventurous spirit in me, but at my age I will just camp here in the UK and dream I am on the Oregon trail. Thank you for uploading this piece of history.

@jimmyw7291 26 күн бұрын

To all the. Families that took the original oregon trail I isolute you and your family's Because of your hardships and determination america this is the greatest country of all

@anthonyweigand6377 2 ай бұрын

My great great-grandfather came through Ellis Island from Germany. And established one of the largest farm and ranch operations in central Oregon. The history I have in my pocket is priceless. I have mercantile receipts for dry goods from 1889 . One stop on the journey that was not mentioned on the way was farewell bend. That's where a lot of people had to make a decision of life and death. The snake river was not a nice ride back then.

@gasmannpat Ай бұрын

I don't think they called it farewell bend back then.

@krismcnulty1664 22 күн бұрын

Yes, they did! My family came to Oregon in 1845, 1847, and 1852. I live in Bend, and I am one street down from Farewell on Awbrey Butte. Farewell Street was in fact named for "Farewell Bend," a saying by the Oregon Trail pioneers .

@lolagilmore2772 3 ай бұрын

Amazing!!!!! Thank you for sharing your time, your adventure, and your dream. Information was very educational. Thank you

@Mikehikes61 3 ай бұрын

Thank You, this was very informative and a great story.

@dianabythebeach 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for posting this documentary. My grandmother traveled the Oregon trail by covered wagon from Missouri when she was age 4. I loved hearing my great-grandmother tell stories about this journey which led them to settle in Idaho. My grandmother met and married my grandfather and they lived in Grangeville, Idaho. My dad was born in 1906...he had an older and younger sister. Several years later they relocated here in So. CA.where my grandfather had a citrus and chicken ranch. I have my grandmother's child size rocking chair that she brought with her from Missouri and across the trail. I also have a quilt and my great-grandmother's woven straw fan which were part of the possessions they carried in their wagon. A blessing to be part of this history. Growing up my dad liked to vacation in Idaho, teach me the history of Lewis & Clark and explore the many rivers of that area. Over the last years I have taken road trips along the trail from Idaho to Oregon and enjoyed the interpretive centers that take us back to those historical days in American history.

@glenkelley6048 Ай бұрын

A WONDERFUL presentation, TYVM!

@johnthompson4162 3 ай бұрын

Love you RED, thank you for sharing.

@b.g.5869 2 ай бұрын

You think Red Steagall shared this? This video is more than 30 years old. He did the narration in the early 90s when this documentary was made, long before KZbin existed. It was most likely made for public television or the national park service.

@SteveBlack-yh4bc 3 ай бұрын

What amazing resilient people

@toddrodgers5108 3 ай бұрын

Bad ass . My sisters and mom did a 4 day trip onthe Oregon treal here in Wyoming. My hole family did pony express re rides for 6 years . O man the fun . I still drive that trail . To Atlantic city Wyoming. Blessings to the hardness of our families that went west. Blessings to you all that did it again . Blessings

@urbanurchin5930 3 ай бұрын

.... ??? curious . . . who was the hole in your family ??

@spikespa5208 2 ай бұрын

@toddrodgers5108 Thank you. I had never heard of Atlantic City Wyoming before.

@HowToGetToHeaven 3 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable watch. Thanks@!

@elizabethtobin6894 3 ай бұрын

What a great documentary.

@CaptainG-xs3yo 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. Great video.

@jebediahnightlinger6357 2 ай бұрын

This video footage is pretty old but Morris and his family still haul people in his wagons. Cool guy!

@lulubelleish 3 ай бұрын

Wow .. they were determined to make a good go of it / life they were amazing

@tonnywildweasel8138 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting! Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful and informative vid. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.

@MissKMR 3 ай бұрын

Nice doc! I enjoyed playing Oregon Trail on my school Apple computer as a kid!

@GibsonJesseAJ 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. Good stuff 👍

@donnawilliams9098 2 ай бұрын

thank you hope you bring more.

@MaryFornabaio Ай бұрын

Great video on the pioneers traveling the Oregon trail

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 28 күн бұрын

Although very incomplete.

@jeffreycalderwood9893 Ай бұрын

I love history and I would have loved to live in the 1800s

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 28 күн бұрын

You ought to read more history about it before you say that. This was a whitewash documentary, fun, okay, but not at all as it was. They didn't even mention what happened to the Witnmans, which is a well-known tragedy, a massacre by the Cayuse Indians.

@RyderWilliams-g5j 3 ай бұрын

Best algorithm a man could ask for

@123canadagirl 2 ай бұрын

What an excellent well researched documentary

@waltmooredanwilson8754 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating documentary. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.

@izaarbach7517 3 ай бұрын

Brave people 👏

@ewingshannon 3 ай бұрын

Brave and desperate. It's truly heartbreaking what they endured.

@kathyoneill4011 Ай бұрын

Excellent documentary and very entertaining

@ttownsend3252 2 ай бұрын

Great documentary and thanks for posting. Very accurate! My 3rd Great Grandfather, Absalom Austin Townsend (1810-1888), took the Oregon Trail a total of four times across the country. Twice from Wisconsin to Rough & Ready, CA (which he founded in 1849) via the California Trail and Truckee Route. He also took it twice in the 1860s to the Gold Rush in Montana ... via an offshoot called the Bozeman Trail which tracked NW through Wyoming and southern Montana.

@flintrichards945 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for a great video that was very interesting.

@marissaclaridge7627 12 күн бұрын

Simply wonderful❤❤❤❤

@johnnyrocket7129 3 ай бұрын

Awesome!!

@cindyclay1750 3 ай бұрын

My German family made this trip, what a tough group. 🤔 One brother thought the trip was crazy & he boarded a ship, going around the horn, which was also dangerous. 🙄 Everyone made it! ☺

@marissaclaridge7627 13 күн бұрын

Simply amazing❤❤❤

@maryvalentine9090 2 ай бұрын

4:10 as a native Oregonian, born in the Willamette Valley, I absolutely WINCED when I heard the narrator mangle the word Willamette.😱😱😱😱 Not anybody that doesn’t live out here cares but the valley everybody was trying to get to it’s pronounced, wil-LAM-eht.

@patrickrussell1888 2 ай бұрын

I agree, but I try not to criticize as I now live in the Southwest with many native American and spanish names! 😊

@maryhenke4629 2 ай бұрын

So what. It was very interesting.@@patrickrussell1888

@blairpomeroy3193 Ай бұрын

@@patrickrussell1888 It’s Willamette DAMIT! THAT’s how it is pronounced.

@christinerhyne8093 Ай бұрын

I know, Right! 😅😅

@deanfordcreative 2 ай бұрын

My ancestors travelled on the Trail. I recently travelled through Wyoming and visited the Independence Rock. The Great Divide Basin is a bleak region that I couldn’t imagine travelling through by wagon or by walking.

@Ladybug38790 Ай бұрын

My Mormon ancestors crossed the plains to Utah - mostly on foot. My 2nd great grandmother was about 15 when her family began the trek from Nauvoo, IL. Sometimes the Indians would follow the wagon trains and one Indian wanted to take my gg grandmother (Mary) because she had red hair. He followed for days pestering the family until they hid her under bedding and such in their wagon and told the Indian she had died. He still followed for a day or two and then gave up. She ended up marrying what I consider to be a man-baby Mormon in Utah, and after having 10 kids, this husband brought home a 2nd wife. Because polygamy you know. Anyway, Mary kicked the husband and the 2nd wife out of their house. Along with running a farm and raising kids, she had to take in washing to make a living. She lived to 107. She was English and I’m proud to be a descendant of a woman who refused to put up with the church’s polygamy bullshit.

@nabillayoun 13 күн бұрын

I'm so glad to hear your story sir

@elizetes7313 2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful story thank you for sharing it

@elizabethtobin6894 3 ай бұрын

I would love to see the Oregon trail.

@ALEXANDER.442 Ай бұрын

Great story... Needs support to attract more tourist to experience the journey to the oregon trail...

@quantumrobin4627 3 ай бұрын

I have an anvil that left Indiana with my dad’s great gpa, made a round trip on the Oregon trail.

@conniewinkler4838 3 ай бұрын

My great great grandparents made this trip with my great grandfather as a young boy. I have gg grandmother's diary. The correct pronunciation of the Willamette valley is "will am ette", no long e at end.

@margiemasih1073 3 ай бұрын

This is something...and you have a part of that history

@martinmoore5335 3 ай бұрын

My ggg drandad an Gramma made it to walla walla in 1858 , I'm a Washington pioneer certificate , they had 9 kids that came with them

@JimScott905 2 ай бұрын

It would be great if u made a reading video of the diary. Is the diary long?

@GodLovesYou1980 3 ай бұрын

Thank you

@McQScot 2 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary!

@nascarvintage17 21 күн бұрын

honestly very good documentary fascinate i loved !!!

@germaineprien7691 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Red!!!❤❤❤❤

@SteveGee1986 27 күн бұрын

Great piece.

@patrickrussell1888 2 ай бұрын

Martin Baker Gay family 1852, settled Spencer Mountain south of Eugene, Oregon 1853. One daughter, Martha Gay, kept a diary that was later published as 'One Woman's West.' 😊

@kathrynludrick4821 Ай бұрын

My 3rd great grandparents made the trip in 1852 from Missouri. A daughter died along the way. Their youngest child was born in Oregon. By 1860 they were back in Missouri, on the 1860 Barry County Missouri census.

@unitedstatesdale 3 ай бұрын

All without Wifi 😊

@robertrhoades983 3 ай бұрын

😂

@shivakumar-iq2fz 2 ай бұрын

😊😊

@massagedude3487 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 while dodging arrows and dysentery

@Lisa1111 2 ай бұрын

What's wi-fi? Let's listen to 8-tracks 😊

@SHRFUTD 2 ай бұрын

At least they had 3G

@Louis-e6q 3 ай бұрын

Some men were smart enough to fallow the W T s and collect the discarded things and sell them back to the travelers after they reached their destination ❤😮

@AmericanWoman25 Ай бұрын

I currently live in Historic Jacksonville, Oregon. It's a magical place!

@perspellman Ай бұрын

Great, highly informative and true documentary, not only about the Oregon trail but on how the westward migration occured in general. The old footage illustrations are just fantastic and so realistic. What movie(s) are they from?

@franktrieu5602 3 ай бұрын

Excellent

@rebeccahale4673 2 ай бұрын

I traveled the north-to-south Oregon Trail 22 years ago....the one from Pasadena, CA to Eugene, OR.................

@johnbarrick8265 Ай бұрын

Pretty awesome, amazing trek..

@MattWedelich 2 ай бұрын

Great video 😊

@TomMcPherson-l9w 25 күн бұрын

I am curious how they got the incredible black and white footage - very well done !!!!

@michelebush2138 2 ай бұрын

Great video.

@sipoppy984 2 ай бұрын

This documentary reminds me of nap times in grade school. 💤

@strokerace5468 2 ай бұрын

They were some tough people. I guess if a bad storm came up you just had to get what cover you could and eat it

@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw 3 күн бұрын

Would be a hell trip even for a fit man, let alone bringing families.

@garyjenkins2500 2 ай бұрын

Ancestors traveled the Oregon trail in 1861! Settled into the Willamette Valley in 1871! Pleasant Hill area! Ta da!

@RobertBelt-x6d Ай бұрын

Greetings from Germany.... This one warmed my heart to watch the hardships that our forgathers endured to make our Great Republic what it is today. It also saddens my heart to know that our Republic has been evaded by many illegal migrants that come to our country unwilling to assimilate let alone unwilling to cross our southern border the legal way. Meanwhile infesting our towns and cities not knowing or caring to learn our way of life and become apart of it from the heart. Our land was built on migrants that lived loved and died for a life of freedom and liberties. May The Good Lord Bless and keep you and bless those that stand for our America... Amen

@davidbarr8394 3 ай бұрын

"Will-AM-et". It's not a suburb of Chicago, but a river in western Oregon. But that's okay, at least we don't have to hear "ARE-uh-gone". Went to a concert in Portland recently and the nice man said, so great to be back here in ARE-uh-gone. Could have heard a pin drop.

@clayman4575 3 ай бұрын

Williamette like dammit.

@lukeblankenship8424 3 ай бұрын

I live near Tulalip and was at a concert there once and the singer said, “TO-LA-LIP, HOW WE DOIN???”

@Jprid 3 ай бұрын

Will uh muht….LOL

@N8rGrant 3 ай бұрын

Oragin

@AronDohn-mu8xe 3 ай бұрын

Pretentious much?

@johnnowlan9963 6 күн бұрын

It looked easy in the movies 🎥🍿🐴🐴🤠

@AnotherTrooper 2 ай бұрын

I didn't believe it when they said a body is buried every eighty yards then i did some math if one in ten died out of half a million that's fifty thousand then divide that by how long the trail is (2,170 miles converted to yards) then divide the yards by fifty thousand and the answer i got was seventy six so it is even less than eighty yards if i did my math right. But I'm not sure i did poorly in math class.

@nabillayoun 13 күн бұрын

🩶 not funny . As an a pampered immigrant ( I'm ( July 1976 landed in MontrealCanada ) I wish it was Texas or Florida or any other conservative USA state. But never the less. We new immigrant S owes your parents our good fortunate easy life. Don't forget what price your great great grand parents payed . Vote in people like mat gates and Jordan and specially beloved president trump . Hold on to your constitution . Burnie and Obama and Clinton and Bush and Liz the MEAN CHAI! They all intentionally trying to destroy what your parents built

@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw 3 күн бұрын

Grit and guts.

@John-g2s3m 3 ай бұрын

It's still mainly ran by the British, NW Redcoat county

@n12gaming 3 ай бұрын

YAAY America!

@Humgin1234 Ай бұрын

Cool thanks ❤

@Hardrock1911 4 күн бұрын

Great video material from 1850s 😋

@archisiob47 2 ай бұрын

Good voice of the narrator,could be easily understood.clear wispt voice.

@rasputindasilva858 2 ай бұрын

I have hunted bisons with Buffalo Bill for over a decade. A great fellow he was.

@Jozay562 3 ай бұрын

So the Pioneers & Farmers that come from South America are no different than these immigrants. No different, no better, nor worse.

@superbee-di5tp 3 ай бұрын

Some maybe Pioneers and Farmers but the majority are coming to get all the free stuff they have been promised.

@matildesantos4215 2 ай бұрын

Not really .The newcomers are here to fleece our hard earned dollars .Nobody works, they are placed in 5 ☆ hotels, are given food vouchers and Iphones

@shawnaweesner3759 2 ай бұрын

It was a brutal trip, filled with back-breaking work, danger, and sorrow. The trail was a part of what ended the Indians and their culture, but for the immigrant farmers, as long as they made it to their final destination, they were assured of a new beginning.

@Rebecca-zr3lu 2 ай бұрын

God, thank you for healing the nations, tribes, tongues and peoples from sins. Generations of sins. Thank you for history and thank you that you make all things work together for the good for those who love you and have been called according to your good purpose and your good will and true love in Jesus name, I pray for Christians today and consider it a miracle to have had the gospel spread through times such as the dark ages and the renaissance ages and frontier and pioneer days! What a victory!!! Thank you. 🌈I pray for people to enjoy history and love to find you there, God, In Jesus name. Amen 🙏 You are a great and loving God. 🤍

@LoneJoe_hadley 26 күн бұрын

My ancestors migrated over the Mormon trail with Brigham Young and settled Utah.

@markthomas4083 3 ай бұрын

One mile an hour on average. Wow, the ingrown toenails and blisters must have been the extreme problem back then. I feel bad for the natives as well as the beast of burdens. Heck, it all sounds too demanding at times.

@Larsenne Ай бұрын

I live in Oregon, very close to the Columbia River, and I'll walk back to Missouri for free land. We need another situation like this

@tonyamcinvale-brown5950 Ай бұрын

If someone offered me beautiful untouched land..I'd make the trip too❤❤.

@angelaf5040 Ай бұрын

How, without Google maps? Wow! Brave folks!

@oneandonly6598 Ай бұрын

They had Map Quest back then.

@JosePlata Ай бұрын

The ascent to the rockies is nigh discernible. 9-10,000 feet at some points in Wyoming, they went from 1000 ft to 10,000 ft and they didnt even feel it. This alone was some of the most overlooked parts of the journey.

@roberthayes9842 3 ай бұрын

In the uk when horse and carts were the only form of travel they averaged about 20 miles per day which a team would be changed every 10 miles, resulting in some turnpike,s owners having 12 hundred horses to keep up with the demand where horses were kept

@spikespa5208 2 ай бұрын

non sequitur comment.

@MetalTeamster 2 ай бұрын

They were conservative republican pioneers. They were the original Maga. Only the cows had not been discovered and the tremendous chickens had not been invented, so they were just MA …..make America . They were the number one pioneers of all pioneers. Huge pioneers !