Oregon Trails: History of American Westward Explained on Maps

Embark on a journey back in time with us as we explore the historic Oregon Trail! 🚂 This 2,000-mile route from Independence in Missouri to Oregon City in Oregon was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to settle the American West. 🌄 From the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Great Emigration of 1843, discover how this challenging trail shaped the settlement of the American West and opened up the next frontier for expansion. 🌎 Learn about the pioneers who braved the rugged landscape and faced numerous obstacles, including harsh weather ☔ and attacks by Native Americans 🏹, in their quest for a better life and the chance to own land without paying for it. Join us as we uncover the thrilling chapters in American history that led to the establishment of the Oregon Trail! 📚🌟
#oregontrail #americanhistory

[@kzmaven7478]

Good content, but those sound effects are terrible and quite distracting.

[@desertodavid]

I only made it 1 minute and 41 seconds. I'm out of here. This is horrible to listen to

[@GabeHandle]

@@desertodavid I made it 2 minutes and 51 seconds before heading to the comments for validation.

[@adbthreetwenty]

Whoa I had to go back to see what you were talking about...I didn't even notice the sound effects at all, haha!

[@beanbag5783]

Good video, but waaaay too busy with sound effects. Also they are painfully loud. You dont have to have swooshes and bings every sentence- have faith that your content will hold your audiences attention without needless bings and bongs

[@john56801]

"What kind of sound effects do you want?" "YES"

[@byronbuck1762]

I don’t think the narrator has ever even been close to Oregon given his pronunciation of Willamette. But other than that and other mispronunciations, it’s a decent little piece on important history.

[@oscarharding3429]

It's one of those lazy text-to-speech videos thats why its mispronounced

[@bothellkenmore]

AI. Never heard cholera pronounced that way.

[@surferdude44444]

I think he’s an AI computer. Seriously.

[@markw999]

Bot

[@plissk3n1337]

Really informative and well made, thanks. Only the sound effects are really annoying and makes the video hard to follow.

[@historyonmaps]

Sorry about that, we will improve in our next videos

[@plissk3n1337]

@@historyonmaps no need to apologize! just some constructive feedback which you may take or are free to ignore. Your channel your creative freedom ;)

[@KyleWeber]

Good and informative video, but the audio clicks and dings were too loud (quite a bit louder than the narration), so I couldn't keep watching it.

[@enchiladadog414]

Yall tripping

[@kurterickson9744]

Cholera is pronounced CAW-LER-UH and not CHAW-LER-UH.

[@musicandbackroads]

Probably used an AI voice. They don't always get it right.

[@tbluge]

yeah i'll never understand why these channels insist on using an AI voice. Couldn't a simple human just read out loud? Really makes content like this much less interesting. I immediately give a thumbs down no matter what.

[@cozyafloatisme]

While I give a thumbs up for the effort, I also get frustrated by mispronounced words: Will-LAM-et valley (not Willa-met), or the first utterance of Oregon as Or-i-gone which they corrected thereafter.Then, alas, called it Oreegun as their last word on the video. And what's with Way-oming?

[@jared338]

Pronounced Oregon 3 different ways in the first minute.

[@frogmantoad8110]

@@cozyafloatismewaaaahhhhhhh

[@saifonlawrence2044]

Jerry Lewis and Roy Clarke travelled that route...lots of laughter and singing songs.

[@natekerr1]

You pronounced Oregon 3 different ways. Areegan city, Oregon trail, and the state of Oregahn😂. loved the video!!

[@markpalmer7832]

Many of the people wound up in Northern CA and didn't realize that they were not in Oregon for years.

[@JB-gr6om]

Traveling on the Oregon Trail, kinda puts sitting in the last row in a center seat on a long flight on Spirit Airlines into perspective… 😂

[@magscovers8924]

Back row is the safest seats on a plane though. They typically seat rich people where they will die in a plane crash on all airlines. Aka first class. But I get the idea.

[@GreatMewtwo]

6:25 The classic "Oregon Trail" game begins in 1848. By the end of that year, Spain would cede the Cimarron and California regions to the US, and the trail would get more hype from the gold rush the next year, resulting in the cut-offs going that way. On another note, nor did the game lie about the prevalence of infectious diseases like cholera spreading on the trail, especially through communal use of waterways wherever travelers set up camp.

[@phredphlintstone6455]

The death rate was only something like 5%. Not great if you are one of the 5%, not bad if you are in the 95%

[@TheAtkey]

@@phredphlintstone6455 Way more than 5% of my party members died of dysentery on all my elementary school playthroughs!

[@phredphlintstone6455]

@@TheAtkey right?

[@timbarnett3898]

I grew up 6 houses up, an grandma living right on last hill on Oregon trail to last wagon Roundup on Willamette River. My grandma neighbor, also living on Oregon trail moved to Oregon from Germany after WWII. She nearly starved in Germany while he was a German submarine sailor. When wall came down, this old German couple traveled to East Berlin to retrieve they're 3 young adult children. We had family of 5 up for thanksgiving dinner when they got back to Oregon. Seeing all the food, never dreaming such a table possible, kids started crying. Then old German couple started crying. I asked dad, why are they ceying? Isit all this food? That might be part of they're tears, but I think it's our freedom that allowed us this table? They are realizing, they are finally Free!

[@LuukvdHoogen]

From what I heard there's two people playing pingpong while their tea is ready and one of them keeps having great ideas..

[@barbaradarnell7376]

On the third try he actually pronounced Oregon more or less correct.

[@callmeBe]

You obviously have not spent any time back east. "Or-e-gone" is how they pronounce it, like it or not . . .

[@Cam_88]

Shotty AI video. I have a feeling theres going to be more of these in the near future.

[@mattcombs8778]

AI joins the chat: Did you mean SHODDY?

[@andrewmartineau5445]

After the Mormon Trail was established in 1847, travelers on the Oregon Trail and California Trail could stop for the winter in Salt Lake City and trade for items that they needed for the rest of their journeys.

[@JB-gr6om]

It’s Willamette, rhymes with d-a-m-n-i-t. 😊

[@tealnexttimebond8859]

Could u imagine doing this ? Lewis and Clark and crew had some guts. To me this is one of the biggest ventures in American history. I’ll never forget a story they said natives said now y’all gonna run into something big , grizzlies. I can only imagine

[@nightnday6675]

Columbus and the Oregon Trail challenges idea of heroism on a monthly basis.

[@surferdude44444]

I live in Oregon. In fact I went to Lewis and Clark College in Portland. In Eastern Oregon you can still see the wagon ruts in the rocks from all the wagon trains. If the train ticket was only $65……..why go through all the grief and misery of a wagon train?

[@nicoleackerman205]

Because $65 was like $10,000 today.

[@surferdude44444]

@@nicoleackerman205……wrong Nicole, do your research. $65 in 1883 is the equivalent of $1,200 today. The cost of a wagon train to Oregon in 1883 was $100 for a family of four. That equals $1846 today.

[@nicoleackerman205]

@@surferdude44444 Does not matter if one has $1200 just laying around they are privileged.

[@leroythegiant_8503]

I'm from Oregon City and feel stupid for not knowing the full history of the Oregon trail

[@korodski]

📖🤓💡

[@historyonmaps]

Nice state with ducks and beavers 😍

[@sethmetteer2521]

This IS NOT an accurate history of the Trail -Coming from a 6th generation Oregonian

[@rad4579]

Fort Walla Walla is actually 30 miles from the Columbia River.

[@andyhowat4624]

Oregon trail. The longest graveyard in America

[@markowens6285]

?

[@bobharrison7693]

The valley in Ory-gun is pronounced "wil LAM et.

[@brianpeterson5559]

Love to see the faces of the hard driving cowboys when they see what's become of Oregon

[@rkinca3512]

The Bidwell-Bartlseson party went to Alta California, not Oregon. Despite warnings from Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, they went southwest from Soda Springs in Idaho, without a guide. They abandoned their wagons near the Pequop Mountains west of The Great Salt Lake, and made the rest of the journey using their oxen as pack animals. They crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains around Sonora Pass at the end of October 1841, nearly starving. They reached Dr. John Marsh's rancho at present day Mount Diablo around November 5, 1841. The Joel Walker family (brother of Joseph Walker, a famous mountaineer/guide) converted their wagons to pull carts at Fort Hall, Idaho. They did not take wagons into Oregon. The first wagons taken to Oregon (at least to the Columbia River) were by Robert Newell and Joe Meek (borther of the later to be infamous Stephen Meek of the Meek Cutoff debacle). These were supply wagons, not emigrant wagons. The first wagons taken into Alta California were by the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy party in November, 1844. A few other inconsistencies... but I'll let those slide.

[@bobbrock4221]

Merriweather is such an awesome first name.

[@tbluge]

Ha , i was thinking the same thing.

[@cozyafloatisme]

So was Lewis! He was depressed during much of the journey, and ended up committing suicide (supposedly) when back in the "states." Clark lived into his early 90's and supported John Baptise (Sacajawea's son born on the journey) into the baby's adulthood.

[@neanam]

Merriweather Mayweather How's that for a name

[@hannahg5216]

Oh boy, I’m afraid I must make this journey as I failed to reach completion last time. The redwoods feel like our tropical forest.

[@Edward135i]

Or-a-gon, wil-AM-it

[@cozyafloatisme]

Best to spell Oregon with a "gun" at the end when showing a correction. Obviously, the reason so many get it wrong is the "gon" at the end, making it "gone."

[@helloim3j]

The Northwest was not unclaimed. Lots of people lived there already.

[@psymi-hk1fp]

most were already dead from small pox

[@ourv9603]

Have you ever seen those broken wagon wheels sitting out at the end of peoples drive? Yeah, well, thats how that family got there, the wagon wheel broke so there they stayed. They settled for that spot & gave up on that dream of Oregon. Why do you suppose they are called settlers? !

[@tstahler5420]

I died of dysentery just watching this. 😂

[@Biochemist01]

"Cha-lera" is incorrect. It is "Ka-lera". Is this AI generated?

[@texasranger6545]

Nice video. Would be less distracting without the sound effects

[@kosycat1]

If you were a kid in the 80's or 90's you know all about the Orgeon Trail =]

[@ShaheenGhiassy]

I know others have given you a hard time on pronunciation- but don’t let it get to you. Good work on the vid and keep it up!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

For all those who wear earbuds or headsets listening to the video with all the bells and actual whistles, I say, OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Easy on all the high pitched sounds please. They keep getting louder and more painful through the video. I want to learn not be stabbed in the ear.

[@rickhaverkate2203]

And yet not a single mention of the original inhabitants of the lands…

[@Joyce-id3dr]

GOOD JOB

[@bender4president2024]

You really pronounced oregon correctly when saying oregon trail, and then proceeded to butcher the word when saying just the state in the next sentence. Oregun* is how it is pronounced.

[@dLimboStick]

You can totally tell that this is being narrated by A.I. So many things are mispronounced. Hell, it even pronounces Oregon in about four different ways.

[@crystalgreen3677]

Marcus Whitman and his friend Spaulding opened a mission in Idaho proper, 300 miles east of Willamette Valley. They opened a mission for the Nez Perce and Walla Walla tribes. They were eventually killed by the natives. They were in truly wild country and never went to the safety of Willamette valley. Whitman was a great uncle of my husband’s.

[@scooterakana1954]

First 15 seconds and bro came up with three different ways of saying "Oregon"

[@jimby2865]

I have wondered if there was not an American civil war, how that would have affected westward expansion.

[@brandonmccaskey9337]

Say it with me. Will- Lammit. Not will-a-mett

[@Showmefeelings]

I'm learning English with your videos

[@conniecrawford5231]

Please don’t use this video to learn pronounciation-there are many mistakes’!

[@primafacie9721]

Willamette is pronounced like Will Dammit without the 'D'. Will Am It.

[@cozyafloatisme]

My mother's name was Willa while I was growing up in Portland, and we jokingly called the river and valley "Willa-met" after her, but never in the company of other Oregonians!

[@timrowe234]

I could do without the sound effects! Thanks

[@jimludacka9342]

Your map in Nebraska is wrong I drive on the Oregon trail every day in Oak ne.

[@jackryan1809]

"unclaimed land" like it was empty lol.

[@gonzaloleon-gelpi9776]

All the beeps, et cetera, how annoying.

[@free_at_last8141]

Great job. Subscribed.

[@J_McPhearsom]

it’s an AI just so you know. Not someone’s hard work. It’s autogenerated spam.

[@free_at_last8141]

@@J_McPhearsom I actually didn't realize that. That's unfortunate.

[@J_McPhearsom]

@@free_at_last8141 they are getting more “convincing” day by day unfortunately. One guy with no morals can have multiple bots automating an untold number of channels with sometimes accurate, always questionable “content” that’s more akin to spam. They use a specialized bot for each aspect of video creation (web scraping, scripting, then voiceover, and graphics) churning out generally believable “content”. Seems number of automated “fake” channels have quickly outpaced the number of real channels in the past year. They bring in money from the cumulative views from all their channels, no matter if most is AI generated garbage or half-truths. I already see them crowding out actual human individual content creators, flooding the algorithm. Even KZbinrs giving courses on how to do it. (I only have a keen eye for it because machine learning was a part of my grad degree and research.) Scary to imagine the future where misinformation, disinformation, or pseudo information is mass produced and louder than any real expert or opinion.

[@J_McPhearsom]

@@free_at_last8141 it’s also why “Oregon”, and every other name, have zero consistency in pronunciation. And why it’s going crazy with sound effects and pop-ups throughout video, even when there is no actual emphasis happening.

[@barbadolid5170]

Those bloody noises, goddammit

[@user-xn4hu3nh9n]

I currently have the top score on the Oregon state Oregon trail website as bgc or big sad ❤

[@stanstockton544]

I was led to believe there would be more dysentery

[@mattcombs8778]

And cowbells.

[@OtterXtra]

Turn the sound effects down. Could have been a good video to loud noises

[@little-wytch]

Need to retrain your AI narrator. It got Oregon right most of the time, except for the city name when it said Oreeeeeeeegon city 😛 Also butchered the pronunciation of Cholera. Some of the cadence was a bit off to, but otherwise mostly believable.

[@m.berelli]

Narrator mispronounces Oregon as “Or-E-Gone” only to pronounce it correctly in “Oregon Trail” a half second later. Turned it off become 30 seconds in.

[@russrask]

Please learn how to pronounce Wyoming, Oregon and route

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#Sacagawea #Fitzpatrick #Hildago #Marshall

[@aborne]

The AI voice of this video doesn't know how to pronounce 'cholera.'

[@danjohnson8556]

The Mormons came across in 1847 and settled half the intermountain west (Idaho to Arizona), but no mention.

[@terresacawthra-cornelius8007]

Extremely bad pronunciation of multiple words--Some examples of the word Oregon, Willamette, Cholera, Guadalupe de Hildalgo, James Marshall, etc. Otherwise, this was useful. Go back and fix the pronunciations so it doesn't sound like AI narrated this (comment is from someone who is a Oregonian living in the Willamette Valley who also speaks Spanish) .

[@lemonaid8678]

Go away.

[@dhjdidieikeke]

Womp womp

[@williamk5998]

Agree. Hard to tolerate.

[@desertodavid]

​@@lemonaid8678 it's a horrible video. Grow up.

[@lemonaid8678]

@@desertodavid go away.

[@joegagliardi3984]

Oreeegen!

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#TrailOfTears

[@jamesbaker7158]

The narration sounds like AI.

[@joeshoe6184]

Its hard to take a video seriously when the makers dont take the subject seriously enough to get the pronunciations right. Amateur at best.

[@sjTHEfirst]

The robo voice is bad and the sound effects are very annoying.

[@markowens6285]

My fathers family came across in about 1910 I was told

[@johnperkins7111]

Take a good story and f. .k it up with sound effects and computers "talk".

[@saulmadrileno8529]

1883

[@adamknight5089]

Great show

[@johnny_3514]

Made it to 1:22 before I couldn’t deal with the sound effects anymore..

[@stevedietrich8936]

Some of the pronunciation errors on this video are hilarious.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Where did you grow up to not know how to pronounce so many words, or not know to look up how to pronounce them? I want to keep enjoying this channel but repeated blunders of how to say stuff (cholera = call - ur -uhh and you blew Elijah also) along with the non-stop sound inserts, many of them painfully in the high register, makes me wonder if it is worth it. Great information presented so poorly. That's the debate here.

[@dudewheresmycar908]

Not watchable due to ridiculously bad pronunciation and horrible sound effects.

[@timmartin6410]

It's Ore-gone, it's Ore-gun

[@soliddesignanddetail]

Can you find another way to mispronounce "Oregon", this is hillarious

[@soliddesignanddetail]

The Oregon City one is my favorite

[@TheRabid0ne]

New Caledonia was the name for the British territory that comprised the majority of what you seem to deem as “Oregon country”. And it was incorporated in 1805. So yah, more research is required.

[@pechaa]

Also it wasn't unsettled. It had been settled for thousands of years by settlers from Asia and their descendants. The Europeans and their descendants weren't settlers on wild land, they were colonizers seeking to overtake existing civilizations.

[@MrRealAmericanvalues]

Oh no you pronounced Oregon wrong .. Ahhhhh

[@DonnieReno]

Also Willamette

[@arnwrkr2985]

Who is this guy ?

[@tbluge]

Imagine having to deal with how horrible Nebraska is back then. It would be never ending. Even today at 80mph its the worst part of driving west.

[@randykroells8049]

I used to cross at night at 60mph because it was so boring.

[@thespeedofchillax]

along I-80 yes, Nebraska can be a monotonous experience, however, if you leave the interstate and drive along one of the two lane highways crossing the northern part of the state, then, imo, Nebraska becomes one of the most interesting states to traverse while driving across the country. especially the panhandle area of Nebraska with the sand hills and the niobrara River valley, as well as the pine ridge region I found fascinating and actually pretty peaceful with the dearth of other people around.

[@TonyKuehler]

In the first 30 seconds I have heard Oregon pronounced four different ways. Next?

[@Matthew-p4t]

qing were already there before us traders...

[@anikdasdigital]

Your videos is really amazing. I really like it. Can i talk with you?

[@historyonmaps]

Thanks and sure, please email us

[@InspectorGadget923]

The constant random clip art noises are very distracting. You don't need them.

[@FalovkaVista]

He pronounced “Oregon” in four different ways

[@Jason-jv6zb]

This is an AI generated video

[@peppapig-123-k2f]

your a AI generated video

[@josephmarkell9742]

Buddy you have an interesting way of pronouncing things.

[@jeffreylally4722]

Your map shows Idaho under British control

[@wmr103088]

That was my game fr in 2nd or 3rd grade 😅

[@asteriskesque]

The constant sound effects make this video hard to watch.

[@robertnosbisch5906]

OREGUN.

[@jennifernichols9468]

Omaha is too far north on the thumbnail

[@haytguugle8656]

Lame, computer generated voice to do the narration. Either that, or an extremely illiterate person purporting to be an authority well-versed enough in American history so-as-to post an educational video expected to be taken seriously. What a shame. It could have been a great thing to share. Instead; down-voted and channel blocked.

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#GoldRush

[@taylorrromero]

Wool-lamb-it 😂 not Willa-mutt.

[@billmalec]

Sound effects are very annoying. Didn't even make it 2 minutes in

[@davidr.6308]

Prove it

[@CharlesMears-t1u]

How does someone mispronounce cholera this bad?!?!?!?!

[@markwilde2391]

Narrator left out the Mormon migration from 1847 to early 1860s.

[@ericoakley4388]

Wow who in your family sold you on the sound effects….fire them!