Show Notes: Podcast 10 - When you should pack your weight in bacon Today's Sponsor: Valley Food Storage

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By the Numbers: * 2,170 - Miles long the Oregon Trail was from Independence, MO to Willamette, OR * 1836 first wagon train on the Oregon Trail * 1803 year Great Brittian Declares War on France in response to prohibiting GB trade with Europe * 1803 year France sells 'Louisianna' to the United States at $18/mile * 1803 year that Jefferson commissions Louis and Clark to map the new territory * 1814 year the War of 1812 treaty of Ghent signed restoring order to the Canadian border and stopping Canadian trappers from expanding south * $4 the amount a Beaver Pelt sold for in 1840 * $1 the daily wage in 1840 * 1843 year of the Great Migration * 43,000 number of Mormons that migrated along parts of the Oregon Trail from 1840-1860 * 1848 California GOld RUsh begins * 65 percent of the male population that moved from Oregon to California in 1849 * 6 Months of food needed to make the journey * 20 pounds of sugar each wagon carried * 150 pounds of bacon in each wagon * 200 pounds of flour per person that was packed for the trail * 268,000 travelers that used a portion of the Trail from 1840-1860 * 95% survival rate of those that started the journey * 12,000 died by desease * 4,500 died by indigenouse attacs * 500 Froze to death * 500 Were trampled * 500 were shot by non-indigenouse * 500 scurvey * 500 drowned * 1971 year the game Oregon Trail came out developed by the Minnisota Educational COmputin Consortium