History of the Oregon Trail and Pony Express (Full Documentary)

[@josecalderon8992]

I arrived in the US in 1993 and the first computer game I played was the Oregon trail ❤️ I always wondered why the game was so difficult 🤦🏾I've been obsessed with the History of the Oregon trail ever since. 1883 wow what a whim.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@caroliner2029]

Fascinating! Thank you. Listening from Australia.

[@phailnation]

1883 show brought me here!!!!

[@makeonlinemoneywithkellyl81]

@Harrison Alford Jjjjjjjnnnnj Iiiiipiipnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnu😊😊😊😊😊😊 😊yy

[@Charbear25]

Id rather have Elsa narrating this lol

[@misselanys1219]

I despise Elsa and 1883 brought me here too! Its wonderful how tv can inspire people to seek out American history!❤

[@misselanys1219]

PS you think this is interesting, wait until you do some research into the Donner Party!!!!!!

[@LittleOcasioHomestead]

Me too😊

[@suev3339]

As a young person growing up in northern Kansas I went to the Harold Warp’s Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska many times. The credits say much of this documentary came from there. Pioneer Village is truly an educational museum of magnanimous proportions. Thanks for the memories in this documentary.

[@mikeisaacs2314]

It was a good day when the TV and VCR rolled into the classroom and this video would come on

[@area.man.]

I had the Texas Instruments watch that had a TV remote function on it. That was a blast in high school muting or turning off the TV and freaking the teacher out.

[@conniewinkler4838]

My great grandfather was a small boy when he came across the plains by wagon train. GGGrandmother sold everything in sheridan Wyoming and finished the trip by train. I have :her diary, its incredible!! -

[@DianaWilliams-c7y]

EXCELLENT production in every way. 15-20 miles a day, day after day after day was a tough thing thing to keep up! Freezing in the Rockies was the wages of a delay. This vid will get a million views, TYVM

[@EducationAdict]

Pioneer village is a great memory from my childhood my father my grandfather and my uncle who was like a big brother went hunting in Campbell. We visited there. Every time we went.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@cunderw12]

Being indigenous this would of never been my journey. I love watching historic videos about the past to get others perspectives on Native Americans/poc during the expansion West. ❤️

[@JM-yx1lm]

Lol. What a goofball .

[@donaldbeamer3563]

Into the West, series. Excellent recap of the troubled history, without doing alot of research on the expansion West. The McClung Library in Knoxville TN has a large 17 volume history on the Cherokee. Spanish documents and friars that accompanied the Spanish will give you an Idea how the first documented encounters with different Tribes were dealt with.

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@JM-yx1lm the Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@donaldbeamer3563the Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@Benno101able]

Excellent documentary I appreciated it and learnt more historical information 👌🏼

[@preppingforendtimessurviva6326]

Excellent documentary! Thank you 🙏

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@normlor]

FASCINATING LOOK INTO AMERICA'S PAST AND STRUGGLES !!!

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@barbaraking7069]

2024 thank you keep history alive

[@americansweetheart5597]

My family has a piano that was brought over on the Oregon trail. Which is rare because they were the first things to go when things got tuff. And the previous owners said from what they were told, the piano hasn't been tuned since it was on the east coast and it's still in perfect tune. I don't know how accurate that part is but it's a cool story.

[@boost1728]

A piano wouldn’t make it half a mile on that trail without losing tune. It’s far more likely it made its way west on rail; even then it would lose tune due to altitude, humidity and vibration.

[@jeremyhampton1686]

I was born 150 yrs to late i would have loved to seen those days where you could go into the wild where humans have never been

[@KultOvKronos]

Humans have been here in America since at least 4000 BC 😂

[@xamxcott]

America has been swarming with people for thousands of years...

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@KultOvKronosyea but it took awhile to get it whitewash 😊

[@boost1728]

@@KultOvKronosno shit… that wasn’t the point. The point was most of the land west of the Mississippi was untouched at the time- you could look out in all directions and see land that had never been messed with by human; you had to really search and search hard for a trail; Meanwhile there’s almost nowhere in the entire USA that you can do that today… everywhere you look is agriculture, highway or overdeveloped city.

[@bobbybrandnew3277]

I love history. That part where they described the earliest ways of figuring out who will be leader. They'd make candidates run literally and whoever had the longest tale of people running beind was chosen. Thats wild.

[@adarshguptak]

LOL, that's how "running for office" phrase came from :D

[@stevetherangerlord-oy6de]

My great Aunt Ruby came across America in a covered wagon and lived to see man walk on the moon.

[@ronniebaughman]

Good documentary 👍👍

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@bethbartlett5692]

Excellent History, wish I knew the details and real story.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@johnodonohoe7602]

It was a great show when small independent film makers like this had a market!

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Indeed!

[@ynotcougar]

They Do! It's Called KZbin..............

[@dezzeynizzuts]

there has never been more of a market for small independent film makers than there is today. the fact that you watched this on youtube proves this. this platform makes anyone that wants to be an independent film makers.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@kennethboydsr3966]

My family traveled by wagon train to Mo. and then the organ trail to Nebraska .

[@cavecookie1]

Where did they end up in Nebraska? My family homesteaded within sight of Scotts Bluff. Almost into Wyoming; thankfully they stopped when they did...we might not have been Huskers! GBR!

[@Pancito49]

My great grandparents were sod busters in north platt.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@cavecookie1the Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@Pancito49the Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@tebelshaw9486]

What's even more fascinating is to read the diaries kept by those who made the journey. Unfortunately, the graves they left along the way were sometimes dug up by the Native Americans for their clothing which was often infested with deadly diseases. For a more complete Hx of the Mormons, look up the "Mountain Meadow Massacre."

[@cunderw12]

Wow. This is one I did not know about. I’ll be looking into it more! I did not know they also attacked “emigrants” moving West. For how untrustworthy they were at the time, we sure rely a lot of their accounts of history as facts.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎.

[@notsurewhatscookin8691]

Awesome video and new sub here!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The land was free, not cheap! That’s why so many went there.

[@franktrieu5602]

Thanks

[@IntheBlood67]

Outstanding!

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@franktrieu5602]

Excellent

[@kcstafford2784]

wish there was a way to turn off the background music I cant watch

[@AnniePA1960]

Pretty sure I hear Jason Robards' voice, and a few others I can't place. Hope we get the credits.

[@dandowning-m3k]

I loved film day in school , The only time I paid attention ...lol Alaska 60s

[@jarrodnewman0514]

In Kansasland at the start of the trails That led to the Golden West The Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Were the two that were known the best

[@gplunk]

I assume they must have had maps to guide them, but not sure if that was mentioned....

[@KoraM-w1l]

Hehe this is for a school assignment😌❤️

[@trulypoortbreezy1829]

The donner reed party story is interesting to watch

[@RobbieCalifornia69]

Doc made in 2009, but looks like it was made 1981 lol.

[@bsbncandey]

It was in 80's. They probably remastered it in 2009 though.

[@larna8609]

An uncle of mine moved his family to Oregon around 1844-45. Said to have buried a small child on the trail

[@louie480]

History + 💯👍

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@Betty-zu9eb]

Most of my forefathers never went past the Mississippi River. A few did but not many. I have had high regards for those wanting to go west. But not at costs of the confrontations of breaking treaties and killings of native Americans.

[@michaelbridges2386]

The Oregon trail has always seemed almost Apollo mission like..

[@Pancito49]

Sod busters were settlers in the Plain States not Oregon. My grandparents came down out of Wisconsin to North Platt and farmed living in a sod home they built.

[@alitlweird]

20:35 Imagine if someone today drank the water that these people drank! It must’ve taken ALOT to make these people sick!

[@kingpro192]

They're the one's who tainted the water lol

[@ann7318]

And yet, the average trip for mail was about ten days, still much faster than the modern USPS, by horseback, Indians, and snow storms and all.

[@Sliceot]

It’s a shame the Oregon trail has been built over would be an amazing walk today but in the name of progression history is lost should of been preserved as a national heritage site where nothing could be built in view of the trail or on it only what the pioneers had built

[@lylecampbell9036]

Wagon ruts still exist and not built over, which can be viewed from the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center nearby Baker City, Oregon.

[@terrioestreich4007]

The reality of natives who wiped out whole families because they were crossing their land is well known. And they were particularly brutal. But they were like that to other native tribes too. Some tribes were peaceful and some were warlike, they were just like the rest of us, not total victims

[@DougThompson-e9v]

Indigenous people were here first...for every settler killed 100 Indians...1000 or more if you count disease..the reality of history

[@gailmoe797]

Lots of inaccuracies!

[@starloszelson4541]

Why don’t you make your own documentary since you didn’t appreciate

[@gabrielford3473]

@@starloszelson4541 They didn't say that. They commented on the fact that there are inaccuracies everywhere. Anyone who thinks this is well done needs a history lesson. One is not obligated to make a documentary to share this sentiment. Just a desire to learn the actual history. Now go think of something more intelligent to say.

[@mikealvord55]

@@gabrielford3473 it can still be well done, even if it has inaccuracies.

[@teachercharlesamericanengl2098]

It seems like if you accuse there are inaccuracies you should point out a few of them rather than just a general statement. There is inaccuracies in all history and inaccuracies in those who think they are accurate themselves. 😂

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@starloszelson4541the Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@russell2910]

We need to bring back the pony express.

[@russell2910]

@@mycinnamongirl I'd gladly forfiet ever getting my mail just to know these noble equines are galloping magnetically all over the country.

[@jackbuckley7816]

I thought we still had it!

[@eaglesavage4929]

Lol bring it back the mail sucks anyway, never no good news anymore.

[@russell2910]

@@eaglesavage4929 yeah, but imagine all the weirdos speeding around on beasts when there's computers and shit.

[@GuapoDelmonte]

They need to bring back Ponyboy from the Outsiders.

[@williamsparks1036]

It was the late 1700's not 1840 1850 when they started moving west, leaving from St Louis. This was during the days of Lewis and Clark.

[@mommytsunami]

Well, “moving west” is pretty vague language. One could say the Europeans had been moving west since 1492 and not be wrong. According to the NPS, the first wagon train to use the Oregon trail was in 1836, though they didn’t quite make it all the way there. Before that, besides the Lewis and Clark expedition only a handful of exceedingly ballsy fur traders had gone overland to the pacific, it seems.

[@lylecampbell9036]

Lewis and Clark was the early 1800's.

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎.

[@albertdeleon6272]

​@@mommytsunamithe Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

[@richardgadberry8398]

"You have died of dysentery."

[@danielsee1]

How fur?

[@kennybeck5519]

This is some PBS stuff looks like.

[@yvonnemoulton6671]

Better check your Joseph Smith facts again.

[@uwusmolbean]

Caveat Emptor

[@michaelbridges2386]

19%

[@patrickhinchcliff3334]

Good thing them missionaries were there to spread the good word through torture and genocide

[@glennstenbergkvist5971]

Nice presentation with excellent narration. Unfortunately the end credits are obscured by an inconsiderate pasting of coming attractions that, adding insult to injury, have nothing to do with the subject of the present program. Thank you for insulting the viewer.

[@rickstevens1479]

Those Saints were the most murderous ones on the trail.

[@iNdUsTrIaLrOcKeR4U]

How did they pass through rivers and canyons and mountains? What did you have for lunch? That you produced yourself, child. From ground up.

[@susancady2581]

How old is this documentary that the narrator is calling Native Americans ‘red skinned savages’?! It’s appalling! This needs some serious editing!

[@americafromsam1674]

No it doesn’t. This is the old perspective. It’s important to keep records of how people used to think in order to not repeat the same mistakes

[@Obamas_Nipple]

they were red skinned savages

[@josephanderson7237]

Relax.

[@Obamas_Nipple]

they were savages

[@1927su]

More like .. We Manifested Greed and entitlement as our Destiny ? AND we will justify our poor behavior toward others by attaching religion to it? 😮

[@mostchillmusic7581]

They flipped it, the Oregon trail goes to the east

[@johnodonohoe7602]

Really cant take this comment seriously yes if your in the west WOW

[@mommytsunami]

@@johnodonohoe7602humor is tough

[@robertttttt716]

It turned it to a woke BS settlers bad I just wanted to know the mechanisms of getting from point a to point b not a sociology lesson.

[@NICHOLAS-h1p]

…the original migrant crisis

[@Obamas_Nipple]

actual migrants, not illegals

[@albertdeleon6272]

The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎.

[@Obamas_Nipple]

@@albertdeleon6272 vikings were here long before that

[@Obamas_Nipple]

the european migrants actually added value to the country tho

[@HeathenTrucker]

Wtf was this??

[@NehpetsRellek]

Censored at 0.50, tell us what was really said: Get your little documentary corrected and tell the truth. Clicking out w/a dislike.👎