Survival Lessons from the Oregon Trail

Learning Survival Lessons from the original Trail Blazers of the Old West. If bugging out is in your plan, you need to take a look at what the Pioneers went through.
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[@jackhawk8952]

I live in rural southeastern Oregon and have seen the trail and old homesteads it's all just down the road... kinda funny we have a homestead also.. getting oldschool off grid kinda funny how the smart ones are taking a step back... I would change nothing i like this life.. We always laugh and call it farm life 2021...

[@Will7981]

And a lot of people now think they have it hard. LOL

[@DamionJR4923]

There’s a lot of stress and suicide both are tough just different

[@dyerseve45]

Well it does take like 9 seconds to download any song ever recorded. Thats a high stress situation

[@connorandersen8687]

Yea mostly the city folks.

[@thelatearthurmorgan6158]

Well if only we would let the communists run the show, I'm sure they'll make us a perfect society. 🤡

[@realaussiemale567]

@@thelatearthurmorgan6158 I’m sure

[@motorcityman99]

Good insight. sadly kids Today don’t know what end of a shovel to hold

[@leatherneckprepper4477]

Only you could come up with a video about the Oregon Trail for preppers. Spec freaking tackler video I love it. Keep up the good work as always buddy.

[@josephlicata4304]

Thanks for the history lesson. Bugging out is really the last resort!

[@DukeFrazierProductions]

I highly recommend the book The Prairie Traveler by Randolph Marcy. It was essentially the survival guide for the western trails, and some holds true today.

[@chrisbrown2627]

Live real close to the Oregon Trail. There is some markers for lives lost with the natives in about 30 miles in two different directions from me on Idaho=Oregon border.

[@daze4341]

And now they're trying to get out of there. 🤣

[@skyclown1]

I live in south Florida. Where am I going? I'm bugging in until my house is destroyed.

[@shawnsmith780]

Great video! Very interesting! Would love to see how trappers, frontiersmen, the military, etc. survived out in the west.

[@bugoutadventures]

I'm getting my wagon repaired now, the supplies I had on Jolene (all survialist equipment) and the nation's roads have caused some issues. I've lightened the load, to basically necessary items.

[@sjs928]

GOD BLESS US ALL... those who heed this message. If people were put through that , 95% wouldn't make it today....those were TOUGH folks

[@coachb2766]

Great video. When we settle on Mars we'll need these examples

[@CommonCentsOutdoorsman]

This presentation was very good!

[@jamiehess4211]

They had great resources: other pioneers.

[@realaussiemale567]

These days, if a kid leaves his phone at home, on a school day, they go in complete shock.

[@davidfennelly8385]

Nobody is off the grid. They know exactly where we are!!

[@teresaroman3348]

Great video, even better bloopers! Love and hugs.

[@ebony5766]

Absolutely fantastic video! Interesting facts and s good eye opener! Thanks Sootch!

[@davidgarrison5270]

Great History Lesson. It makes me think though, is there a list of what people should have now, by person that we need in our homes? Thank you.

[@robertferguson9764]

Love the bloopers

[@KPgoBills]

Loyal subscriber here! Awesome video sir! PLEASE, Could you do an updated Car/Truck Kit? Hope you and yours are doing well. Love all of your work!

[@fotobetyar]

This was awesome...!

[@chrisbrown2627]

In October 1860 the Van Ornum Party, survivors of the Utter Disaster, reached Farewell Bend. Here they again encountered Indians. On September 9 & 10, in Idaho, the Elijah P. Utter wagon train suffered a two-day attack by Indians in which 11 emigrants were killed. Survivors fled down the Oregon Trail. Some remained in an Owyhee River camp. The Van Ornum Party continued on. In a crater 3 miles northwest of here, soldiers discovered the mutilated bodies of Alexis and Abigail Van Ornum, their son Mark, an young man named Samuel Gleason, and the 2 surviving Utter boys. The 3 Van Ornum girls and the youngest brother were taken captive. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=107219

[@driftingwithjesus5932]

I live by the Oregon trail

[@callencantrell5663]

Great vidio !

[@russell28533]

If you google "Mr Hanky color code" you can find the kink the bandana represents.

[@SURVIVOR-og6dl]

Really love the flag.

[@buddycarroll9641]

How did they keep at a constant temperature in the dessert and in the freezing Mountain areas.

[@halverde6373]

My kids played Oregon Trail back in the early 90's. They cried for being killed by dysentery time and again.

[@mikeholley4488]

here for the original computer game, "oregon trail"

[@rollthedice54]

How about hygiene? Did they have soap for bodily cleaning?

[@cheeto.1]

Im man enough to admit I probably wouldn’t make that journey

[@47retta]

How long did it take to get there?

[@thesmartbudgetchannel2940]

👍awesome content

[@christinamoneyhan5688]

All those sturdy items you are talking about were items that were built to last at those times. Does not have anything to do with sturdy, it the way all things were built to last back then .

[@juanch6936]

🇺🇸💪

[@kimnenninger7226]

Real bacon doesn't require refrigeration.

[@nagaviper1169]

Bugging out should be the absolute LAST option.

[@concretecowboy4212]

👍✌💯🇺🇸

[@danielsalach1234]

Shotgun was nice you can just use rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thewildgoose7467]

My philosophy is that..... being 10% prepared is better than not being prepared at all. Being 20% prepared is better than being 10%. etc. I know I will never get to 100%, but if I'm inching that percentage up little by little, I know I'm heading in the right direction.

[@susanolson3611]

Your persistence will pay off.

[@ldn0224]

That is the correct mentality! :) Good on you

[@MoinkAndKilo]

Right! You could wait till SHTF to get the stuff you need but then you would need to be part of the panic buyers or crazy mobs. It is so much better to have emergency supplies no matter how few, BEFORE the emergency happens even if it's just some canned food and a knife, more than some people have.

[@AggyGoesOutdoors]

Very interesting, you could quite easily do a whole series to do justice to this subject

[@Doomsdaygirl8186]

Agreed! I would love to watch that.

[@shawnsmith780]

Yes! Please do!

[@ArcanusLibero]

My Great Grandmother was traded at 14 years old after her mother died for a buck board, 4 sacks of seed grain and a plow horse. She lived out the rest of her life in the prairie farmhouse her husband built. When I was a kid I would fight to sleep on the buffalo hide blanket when we spent the night.

[@ArcanusLibero]

@Emma Lloyd Not sure... They were married for 70 years when he died. She lived past 100. She never saw her family again. At least he got a good marriage out of the deal.

[@sjs928]

Amazing....

[@ArcanusLibero]

@@sjs928 She used to marvel that she came across the prairies in a wagon and lived to ride in Jet Planes to Las Vegas. She marked a lot of time and change.

[@waypasthadenough]

@@ArcanusLibero I was raised by people raised in the horse and buggy days who were raised by people born in the 19th century. That was their mindset all their lives. When my grandmother used the phrase 'out of the country' she didn't mean England or even Tennessee, she meant 5 miles down the road. The average dumbass in amerika has no conception of what awaits them. From the comments here I see most who do have some idea are just going to sit home and wait their turn. How pathetic. When the gov or the mainstream newswhores are releasing/covering something it's about manipulating the message. We are livestock to them. Let’s put things in perspective: The Marxist globalists or whatever they really are blatantly stole the highest elected office on the planet, the greatest seat of alleged power or empire in known human history and NO ONE lifted a finger to stop it. The sheeple of this dead republic fully deserve what’s coming. Those who claim to love freedom or whatever deserve it even more. The 2nd Amendment without the militia is a wingless bird. The only question that matters now is “Why aren’t we hunting them?” I’ll never forget the preacher who told us “I think it’ll all be over by 1985.” Time to vote from the rooftops. FK: The earth turns over and an empire falls www.freekentucky.com/the-earth-turns-over-and-an-empire-falls/ What must be done again and again FK: The fed gov has lost all legitimacy www.freekentucky.com/the-fed-gov-has-lost-all-legitimacy/ The biggest psyop in known history?

[@chapiit08]

@@waypasthadenoughYou seem to be one of the awakened ones, watch Europa: The Last Battle on Bitchute. It's a bit long at about 12 hours duration but it's all there. Blessings.

[@geico1975]

"Bugging out" will ALWAYS be a temporary solution. Let us hope and pray that they'll NEVER be a permanent problem.

[@nmr6988]

Sootch00, you'll enjoy this: my mom was conceived in Texas but born in Oklahoma. When she was 3 years old her parents moved back to Buffalo Gap, TX. They came in a covered wagon pulled by their two giant mules. Not as far as the Oregon Trail pioneers, but pioneers nevertheless.

[@justmepraying]

Praying that you pass that great history down!

[@clwest3538]

My Great Grandmother passed in 1975 at 96 y/o; She and her family (husband and small kids) left Tyler, TX area for Fredrick, OK area in a buck-board wagon - she lived to watch man walk on the moon. Loved it when my mom would get her talking about 'back in the olden days'! I mean, can you imagine all the changes that generation experienced (some were not so good experiences also)?

[@nmr6988]

@@clwest3538 what a wonderful story. My grandmother was born in 1898 and died in 1974. Mom died in 2006 and was the most outstanding and hilarious person I've ever known. You and I were blessed to come from such families. Thank you for sharing!

[@Dantezonzo]

Wtf are you 200 years old ?

[@justmepraying]

@@Dantezonzo what are you 5

[@tacocat9472]

First comment! I loved playing the Oregon Trail in computer lab as a kid. A lot of people in my wagon train died from dysentery and snake bites. Of course as a kid I didn’t understand the gravity of those situations

[@MeowVicious]

That was my favorite game in computer lab. Oregon trail was way better than math munchers any day.

[@Doomsdaygirl8186]

Me too still love it to this day.

[@angielay3313]

Kid of the eighties- I LOVED Oregon Trail. One of the best computer games ever

[@MeowVicious]

@Pat Mynuts Crazy how our educational institutions promoted the very things they say they are against today then if that is so. I liked hunting in the game and I know that is borderline un-pc today. I have never hunted in real life so I guess it didn’t corrupt me too much. Seriously though I have respect for the pioneers.. they were so strong and determined to persevere through situations that most of us would likely buckle and throw in the towel in. Laughed at your name. 😂

[@MeowVicious]

@Pat Mynuts I enjoy reading about those things as well. My son also enjoys and I’m hoping he will learn skills that will come in handy. He just got his first pocket knife recently and we have been reading an antique book for boys about craft and we are learning knife skills and he is looking forward to trying whittling. His dad will take him hunting when he’s old enough. As a woman and a mother I feel bad for men in that for too long now they are sort of vilified and told to be other than they naturally are. I know I don’t want to be more manly either. I can work hard and do a lot but I like being more sensitive and able to take care of and comfort my family in a way only a mom can just as my hubby does like only a dad can. Not the best description but I think you will get the idea.

[@AZDESERTWRANGLER]

Very nicely done! If you were my American History Teacher in high school, it wouldn’t have taken three years to pass 😆😆

[@deedieducati2272]

Thanks for the video. Many Preppers are not thinking about what it would take to travel a long distance on foot (ie.no gas means no vehicle) If I have to leave my home (big "if") I have a 10 hour drive by car. That's probably going to be a 14 day travel by foot, and I have to carry ALL that I need with me to get there, AND I have to travel alone!! Not good. My first choice is to stay put and bug-out at home. I'll still be alone but everything I will need is here.

[@googleuser8211]

I moved from Pennsylvania to Oregon in the late 90s (didn't stay long, antifa-like groups were prominent back then, just not in the news). Several rest stops and gas stations along the way were actually places 'back in the day' people crossed in the old 'Oregon Trail' days. One of the things I found fascinating was that early in their journey, many wagons dropped stoves and other HEAVY things they realized bogged them down. There are STILL piles of the remnants of these things... I'm writing this before watching video, so sorry if this is what you wind up saying!

[@phild8095]

I've seen one of those piles. Rocking chair, piano, fancy clothes

[@googleuser8211]

@@phild8095 I remember stoves and cast iron pans. Their wheels sunk in the mud and got stuck from the weight. Would like to see those places again...

[@phild8095]

@@googleuser8211 some valuable lessons

[@lindamoses3697]

Along my sister's property in the Mountains of Idaho is the Oregon trail. The ruts are still there and the reminders of the pioneers who built and settled America. We will need their strength yet again and bits of knows that have filtered down.

[@propertyquickclose5356]

5th generation OREGONIAN! My ancestors come over on the trail. I live only 3 miles from Oregon City. PREP OR DIE! 🇺🇸

[@stuartlockwood9645]

Hi Sootch it's was an interesting video, and realy brings it home to you about the problems and dangers of bugging out in the times we now live in, I'm an old guy and unless it's a life or death situation, I ain't going anywhere, I'll take my chances bugging in whith my resources handy, we older people arn't going to get far on foot anyway, and if I set off whith a loaded vehicle, and get stuck , my wife and I would be on foot in the middle of nowhere, as an experiment I packed a rucksack whith enough food and water for maybe two days, along whith, tarp gaz stove, pots etc, and at the bare minimum it weighed nearly 30 lbs, at my age I couldn't walk 500yrds whith that, it's a sobering thought , I like your videos, keep giving us useful information , we never know when we'll need it, stay safe mate, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart.uk.

[@MeowVicious]

I feel you. We are soft these days.

[@vaderjones357]

We may be a little soft.... physically we can't keep up....HOWEVER....most of us know how to make fire/shelter and grow food. We are important because of our knowledge!! Also....we know how to open a can without electricity!

[@lightingfires4jc285]

@@vaderjones357 aaaaaaamen!! Our elders are a TREASURE of life-giving wisdom and information!!!

[@littleredhen3354]

Love the outfit😉👍 I think most will end up being the Donner Party. Planning and research aren't big nowadays.

[@doriswhite1348]

Friend's ancestors took the wagon train as far as what is now Leeds,in Missouri. There's a river there that had a stone elevation the wagon trains used to cross on. Friend's ancestors settled there; never crossed the river. Years later his dad was an airline pilot and took one of the ancestors who arrived by wagon train in a plane -- following the wagon trail path the ancestor had taken. Ancestor kept saying things like, "I remember that stream; I remember that mountain etc." Must have been quite a flight.

[@smokinjoe2539]

The biggest lesson that applies even today is: Prepare as much as you can for the situations that could possible arise, and be flexible. We will never know what the future will bring, but can do our best to prepare based on past experiences and current events.

[@hagen3457]

Great information...only takeaway, however, is that I want a new Oregon Trail game ☹

[@kevinbrown9831]

I heard the other day on the radio, it's being developed.

[@dorianleclair7390]

I live in oregon. My fourth grade teacher did the oregon trail in wagons and horseback on some commemorative thing. We did a extensive school trip were we went to fort clatsop, and other places lewis and clark were at. It was a few day trip and a lot of fun. My teacher was dressed up in frontier attire and shot off his musket. I bought a flint and steel on that trip that i still have today. That was in early 90's

[@billsmith8238]

I walk alone my shadow is the only one that walk's beside me

[@tankbennett7]

I like the knowledge you shared. Almost felt like I was back in school. Enlightened my mind kudos

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

I hope KZbin doesn't cancel you for discussing some facts about the history of the United States. This kind of truth telling is considered edgy in this era of modern wokeness. I can just hear the social justice warriors now: "Indians were a threat? How dare you put down an entire race of people...you're a Nazi". ❄😂 I dig your vids, man. I wish I lived closer to the land and not in a disgusting liberal city. I'm working on a plan to get outta here. 🐰💜🇺🇲🎸🎶🤝✌

[@LigmaSak]

Awesome man, hope to hear more about this kinda stuff.

[@slowburn678]

The Oregon Trail story is one of my favorites. In fact I bought quite a few Oregon Trail silver coins a few years ago. Beautiful coins.

[@michaelwier1222]

"....there were good guys out there, there were always bad guys". Sounds like the 2020's.

[@CatDaddySteve]

HANDCARTS ! Many of the religious minorities litteraly walked across the entire US

[@Doomsdaygirl8186]

I live in Oregon its amazing so rooted in pioneer history. I lived in Oregon city for 29 years amazing museums. I dont think I will ever move. Thank you for doing this we have forgotten our pioneer roots. They were such strong people who truly knew about survival.

[@SSN515]

Too bad the communists have taken over Oregon and are burning it down.

[@BabyCharlotteschannel]

@@SSN515 it seems like the places that fought Soo incredibly hard for THEIR Freedoms and liberties are now the absolute worst, most tyrannical overreaching anti-American anti-Freedom Criminal TRAITOR filled places..

[@landroamer1000]

We drove our family of five across country from Georgia to Oregon in a Dodge Caliber with all of our stuff. It wasn’t as dramatic as the pioneers trips but it sure was cramped, and we did have to camp a few times and twice we really depended on my outdoor skills like when we stayed in the desert for the first time and didn’t realize how cold it was going to be, and when we got to Oregon we were camped in this valley while we were waiting for our Airbnb to become available and it got SO cold the first night. The next night I made everyone debris beds and we were toasty.

[@pfarraldcash6095]

your clothes match the theme. 👍🤠

[@azvoltmanphoenix446]

🤔🤔

[@robertogomez3698]

This is was an interesting lesson, thanks for sharing your findings. Have you considered doing a presentation on Survival Lessons from the different native American tribes?

[@warblerblue]

Take it from a Native American. Its much better to have electricity, running water and a modern home. I grew up without those things.

[@username00009]

@@warblerblue yes, it’s definitely better to have those things, but it’s also good to know how to get by without them.

[@lanegardinier760]

These 'Survival Lessons from..." videos are really great, and what a reality check it is for all of us to see the ease and luxury we enjoy in this modern time.

[@bobspistolsandpaydirt8607]

Nice one Sootch00!

[@earthcream]

Video well done!!! Thank you for sharing.

[@carolmclean8535]

Absolutely loved this information. Learned a lot about what was on the wagons. Wow !!!!

[@TheKalkara131]

In the past, I admit I never really, seriously thought about what i'd do if I had to bug out, but I always just figured i'd head out to the woods on my own. Your channel opened my eyes a long time ago and made me think about it more seriously. Plan #1 now is definitely bugging in.

[@yourlifeisyourfault.4212]

If society collapsed having a broken tooth & no dentist or a broken leg & no doctor would suck!

[@frankmundo4300]

Broken leg probably equals death

[@thomasgleaton685]

Bring on the butcher!

[@1XMuleX1]

What scares me the most out of all those is not having a dentist. I am sure a lot of people would die from tooth problems. A few of my family members that were on the street have almost died multiple times from tooth related illnesses.

[@sicsemperevellomortemtyran309]

Mmmmm toothaches...

[@sicsemperevellomortemtyran309]

@@1XMuleX1 Infections...

[@charlesdixon4930]

I am spoiled rotten. And I want to keep it that way. Airconditioning when it's hot, Heat when it's cold, clean cloths and warm food, clean water, all I want. And I do not take any of it for granted. We in the USA have been blessed with so much, which is why I can't understand the people who do not respect it. I pray we never have to "survive."

[@howyoudurrinhunneh]

I traveled the Oregon Trail once. A thief came during the night and stole 13 pounds of food, 1 wagon axel and 3 sets of clothing.

[@trapperscout2046]

That's all? You're lucky. Two members of my party died of dysentery.

[@bonniebethel1234]

I died of dysentery almost every time. 😜

[@ryawncawdor6381]

I have a journal from a French business guy who traveled from Mississippi to California in order to open a import office and for two entire pages he described having a fantasy of eating an entire elephant buttock cheek because of how hungry he was after three weeks of no food due to their supply wagons were washed away in a storm and they were in a grassland that had been totally hunted out of prey by trappers an hunters. It was such a weird bit to read as this guy just broke into fantasy of eating elephant butt. This dude also didn't have a great start as he was quarantined on a river boat for two months because he sailed down the river from Ohio down to Mississippi an while on the ship a disease broke out an killed 5/8 of the passengers and crew by the time they got down to Mississippi and him an the few suvivors were not allowed off until four prisoners were sent onto the ship and lived with them for two weeks without getting sick.

[@Wendy-op3bu]

WHOA ! GREAT HISTORY

[@frankraia4915]

What, no Glock mags??? Grateful for the Pioneers 🇺🇸

[@JonDoe-ef4tz]

PARTY AT DONNER'S PLACE!

[@fatman7100]

I think the mule the most underrated Overlook animal. The mule helped build United States of America. Someone should make a commemorative statue of this wonderful creature.

[@sharonmorton6734]

Totally agree. A mule with a plow allowed a farmer MUCH more production than a hand plow alone. He could feed his family and sell some. That's how Americans grew.

[@chapiit08]

At least the so called "indians" were somehow colorful unlike the outlaws we may encounter nowadays.

[@kingofthedots3835]

I read this huge book ...The Oregon trail in high school ....rough life !

[@RealitySurvival]

Excellent info as always!

[@Wendy-op3bu]

I wonder if they used homemade water filters with a can with clean sand and charcoal.?

[@benjaminpettibone4254]

Excellent commentary! People just have no idea what bugging out truly means long term. Once those backpack supplies run out, the reality sets in real fast.

[@wheredidileavemycell]

Would be nice to see a van life prepper...thems be on perma-bug out

[@lewisvillalta2492]

Thank you very much for all the information and the history you shared with us and we all can learn alot God bless you always and América

[@joeyjennings9548]

a very good helpful informative video 👍

[@ultimatecheeseburger8346]

Loved this video. Thank you so much. God bless you and your family.

[@patriotpreacher43]

In my years in Wyoming I many times visited and even drove on tracks that where established by the wagons on the Oregon trail. Sage grouse and antelope country!

[@MrStrollerisme]

Welp my great, great, great maybe one great was 2 years old and picked up by some baptist missionaries. She was on the Cherokee death march. Now I talk to people about going camping, not glamping, primitive. You bring in what you need and pack out what's left. I ask them about what all they would need, then I tell compound that by weeks, months where would they be.

[@larryprimm5204]

A line of ancestors came from the Oregon Trail.

[@heidigib01]

Many had to walk most the way in order to maximize belongings.

[@jmpriester]

My Commodore 64 told me I would have died from dysentery.

[@EMKAYDOOM]

I live in Oregon City! There's a lot of cool museums out here about the Oregon Trail!

[@justmepraying]

Great video and so true. God bless America and our republic 🙏

[@Blueblackngold]

More videos on history please!

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

“Marge has cholera.” “Timmothy has measles.” “Mary has typhoid.” “Lucy has dysentery.” “Jonathan has a broken arm.”

[@katyferguson8349]

I love this, I love history and I'm a prepper.