Miscellaneous
If you are like us you were part of the first generation of computer addicts and the gateway drug was Oregon Trail. A quiet little game where entire wagon trains died of dysentery faster than you could hit your mac II space bar. On this episode we dive into the diseases that kept every third grader up at night and how on earth we became known as the "Oregon Trail generation" almost 200 years after the Great Emigration. ...sources PLAY THE GAME ***https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html ***https://oregontrailcenter.org/pioneers-talkhttps://apnews.com/article/24e7fbf1d0e84f05a069e8c4c3fcc78fhttps://historicoregoncity.org/2019/04/02/doctors-and-diseases-on-the-oregon-trail/https://www.henrystrobel.com/saintboniface/oregon-trail-diary.pdfhttps://octa-trails.org/articles/life-and-death-on-the-oregon-trail/https://www.kshs.org/teachers/professional/pdfs/r._rey_4th_grade_loc_2011.pdfhttps://www.tor.com/2013/11/06/the-oregon-trail-diary-of-willa-porter-andy-marino/https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5315&context=open_access_etdshttps://www.statnews.com/2017/05/11/quiz-diseases-oregon-trail/