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

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2023
  • Ride along with the pioneers who suffered hardships and victories to forge The Oregon Trail, America’s longest and most famous trail. Then discover little known facts about the legendary Pony Express riders and their part in the Civil War. Breathtaking photography, live re-enactments, illustrated maps and rare photos make these two award-winning historical adventures come to life for all ages
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  • @josecalderon8992
    @josecalderon8992 5 місяців тому +15

    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.

  • @phailnation
    @phailnation Рік тому +63

    1883 show brought me here!!!!

    • @beckpwashington
      @beckpwashington Рік тому +3

      Me too! Such a good show!

    • @makeonlinemoneywithkellyl81
      @makeonlinemoneywithkellyl81 Рік тому

      @@beckpwashington
      Jjjjjjjnnnnj
      Iiiiipiipnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnu😊😊😊😊😊😊 😊yy

    • @Charbear25
      @Charbear25 Рік тому +3

      Id rather have Elsa narrating this lol

    • @misselanys1219
      @misselanys1219 11 місяців тому +1

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

    • @misselanys1219
      @misselanys1219 11 місяців тому +2

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

  • @mikeisaacs2314
    @mikeisaacs2314 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @cunderw12
    @cunderw12 11 місяців тому +19

    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
      @JM-yx1lm 6 місяців тому +3

      Lol. What a goofball .

    • @donaldbeamer3563
      @donaldbeamer3563 Місяць тому

      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.

  • @conniewinkler4838
    @conniewinkler4838 Місяць тому +1

    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!!
    -

  • @EducationAdict
    @EducationAdict 5 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @Benno101able
    @Benno101able 27 днів тому +1

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

  • @preppingforendtimessurviva6326

    Excellent documentary! Thank you 🙏

  • @normlor
    @normlor Рік тому +2

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

  • @user-wg8qu2ti7i
    @user-wg8qu2ti7i 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @stevetherangerlord-oy6de
    @stevetherangerlord-oy6de 19 днів тому +1

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

  • @johnodonohoe7602
    @johnodonohoe7602 Рік тому +13

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

    • @OanhSchlesinger
      @OanhSchlesinger Рік тому

      Indeed!

    • @ynotcougar
      @ynotcougar 10 місяців тому +1

      They Do! It's Called UA-cam..............

    • @dezzeynizzuts
      @dezzeynizzuts 6 місяців тому +3

      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.

  • @ronniebaughman
    @ronniebaughman 10 місяців тому +3

    Good documentary 👍👍

  • @franktrieu5602
    @franktrieu5602 8 місяців тому

    Excellent

  • @bobbybrandnew3277
    @bobbybrandnew3277 3 місяці тому

    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.

  • @franktrieu5602
    @franktrieu5602 8 місяців тому +1

    Thanks

  • @louie602AZ
    @louie602AZ 16 днів тому

    History + 💯👍

  • @IntheBlood67
    @IntheBlood67 5 місяців тому +3

    Outstanding!

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 11 місяців тому +2

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

  • @jeremyhampton1686
    @jeremyhampton1686 3 місяці тому +3

    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

    • @jamespeterson8411
      @jamespeterson8411 4 дні тому

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

  • @kennethboydsr3966
    @kennethboydsr3966 5 місяців тому +5

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

    • @cavecookie1
      @cavecookie1 3 місяці тому

      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!

    • @PAPITO_49
      @PAPITO_49 14 днів тому

      My great grandparents were sod busters in north platt.

  • @tebelshaw9486
    @tebelshaw9486 11 місяців тому +16

    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
      @cunderw12 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @user-de7jm3bl3u
    @user-de7jm3bl3u 4 місяці тому

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

  • @AnniePA1960
    @AnniePA1960 11 місяців тому +2

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

  • @jarrodnewman0514
    @jarrodnewman0514 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @RobbieCalifornia69
    @RobbieCalifornia69 28 днів тому +2

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

    • @bsbncandey
      @bsbncandey 10 днів тому

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

  • @larna8609
    @larna8609 4 місяці тому

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

  • @PAPITO_49
    @PAPITO_49 14 днів тому

    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.

  • @michaelbridges2386
    @michaelbridges2386 3 місяці тому

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

  • @richardgadberry8398
    @richardgadberry8398 Місяць тому +1

    "You have died of dysentery."

  • @kennybeck5519
    @kennybeck5519 23 дні тому

    This is some PBS stuff looks like.

  • @danielsee1
    @danielsee1 10 місяців тому +1

    How fur?

  • @alitlweird
    @alitlweird 4 місяці тому

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

    • @kingpro192
      @kingpro192 4 місяці тому

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

  • @williamsparks1036
    @williamsparks1036 8 місяців тому +1

    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
      @mommytsunami 5 місяців тому

      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
      @lylecampbell9036 28 днів тому

      Lewis and Clark was the early 1800's.

  • @yvonnemoulton6671
    @yvonnemoulton6671 11 місяців тому +1

    Better check your Joseph Smith facts again.

  • @uwusmolbean
    @uwusmolbean 11 місяців тому

    Caveat Emptor

  • @gailmoe797
    @gailmoe797 11 місяців тому +4

    Lots of inaccuracies!

    • @starloszelson4541
      @starloszelson4541 10 місяців тому +3

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

    • @gabrielford3473
      @gabrielford3473 5 місяців тому +2

      @@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
      @mikealvord55 5 місяців тому +1

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

    • @teachercharlesamericanengl2098
      @teachercharlesamericanengl2098 4 місяці тому +2

      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. 😂

  • @terrioestreich4007
    @terrioestreich4007 22 дні тому

    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

  • @Sliceot
    @Sliceot 3 місяці тому

    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
      @lylecampbell9036 28 днів тому

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

  • @russell2910
    @russell2910 11 місяців тому +2

    We need to bring back the pony express.

    • @russell2910
      @russell2910 11 місяців тому

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

    • @jackbuckley7816
      @jackbuckley7816 11 місяців тому +1

      I thought we still had it!

    • @eaglesavage4929
      @eaglesavage4929 11 місяців тому

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

    • @russell2910
      @russell2910 11 місяців тому

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

    • @user-se6vg7mr1z
      @user-se6vg7mr1z 8 місяців тому

      They need to bring back Ponyboy from the Outsiders.

  • @iNdUsTrIaLrOcKeR4U
    @iNdUsTrIaLrOcKeR4U 11 місяців тому +1

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

  • @mostchillmusic7581
    @mostchillmusic7581 Рік тому +1

    They flipped it, the Oregon trail goes to the east

    • @johnodonohoe7602
      @johnodonohoe7602 Рік тому +8

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

    • @mommytsunami
      @mommytsunami 5 місяців тому +2

      @@johnodonohoe7602humor is tough

  • @user-fp8hq3bx1b
    @user-fp8hq3bx1b 7 місяців тому

    …the original migrant crisis

  • @patrickhinchcliff3334
    @patrickhinchcliff3334 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @rickstevens1479
    @rickstevens1479 5 місяців тому +2

    Those Saints were the most murderous ones on the trail.

  • @glennstenbergkvist5971
    @glennstenbergkvist5971 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @susancady2581
    @susancady2581 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @NehpetsRellek
    @NehpetsRellek 4 місяці тому

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