Bonus: The Long Road to Oregon- The version we played
For this episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re looking at a version of the trail many of us remember a little differently.Before the research, before the real stories—for a lot of us, it started w...
25 Mai 13min
The Long Road to Oregon: The Donner Party
For this episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we follow one of the most infamous stories of the overland journey—the Donner Party.What began as a hopeful crossing turned into a fight for survival in th...
22 Mai 23min
The Long Road to Oregon: The Whitman Mission
For the next episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we follow the story of the Whitman Mission—a place many emigrants passed through at the end of the trail, and where rising tension, disease, and cultur...
20 Mai 11min
The Long Road to Oregon: Sovereign Lands- The Native Peoples of the Oregon Trail
This episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re tracing the trail through the homelands of the sovereign nations who lived along its length—Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, N...
18 Mai 18min
The Long Road to Oregon: Women of the Oregon Trail- Hands that carried the West
For this of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re following the women who walked the trail long before it became history. The women who delivered children between river crossings, drove wagons when tragedy s...
15 Mai 13min
The Long Road To Oregon: The Meek Cutoff
We’re launching a brand new Oregon Trail series—digging into the real stories behind the wagon ruts, the dangerous shortcuts, the lost parties, and the moments where hope and survival collided on the ...
13 Mai 12min
The Long Road to Oregon: The blue death, Cholera on the Oregon Trail
For our next episode on The Long Road to Oregon, we’re digging into one of the harshest realities emigrants faced on the trail: cholera.The sudden sickness that moved through camps without warning, to...
11 Mai 14min
The Long Road to Oregon: The great migration of 1843- The first super train
For Episode 1 of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re going back to 1843 to follow the first great wagon train west. This is the story of the families who gathered on the edge of Missouri, joined their wago...
7 Mai 14min
