Do you enjoy traveling? Hotels can be expensive, and gas or a plane ticket can be pricey. Sometimes you can get carsick. It really sucks when you have to go to the bathroom, and there’s no gas station. Imagine there were no hotels, cars, planes or bathrooms. You probably wouldn’t do much traveling. Martha Reed and her family travelled from East America all the way to Oregon. They accomplished this feat without common day technology, including cars, hotels, gas stations and planes. They walked the Oregon trail, which is roughly two thousand miles, on foot. That’s not easy. That wasn’t even the largest part. Starvation has always been an enemy of the human race. It was a major threat for the emigrants. Martha said this,“Ben Kelsey, wife and child and several others came on to California. They had many hardships. Got out of food and had to kill their oxen and eat them and leave their wagons and come on foot and they all but starved.” She wasn’t as unfortunate, but there were those to whom had it worse. …show more content…
It became even more dangerous with the threat of Indians. Not all Indians were warm and welcoming. Martha however, did not face any conflicts with the Indians, although this was not the case for everyone. For example, in Martha Williams Reed, an Oregon Pioneer, she wrote this,” They thought Dr. Whitman brought it there to kill them off so they killed Dr. Whitman, his wife and all that were at the station. “ Although, Dr. Whitman did attempt to kill them first, it seems a little excessive to kill everyone in the station. Moving on, illness was also a major concern. They didn’t have showers on hand, they also weren’t aware that being dirty can make you sick. Considering they were out in the wilderness, getting dirty was