[or-roots] relative hardships of travel

[Marsha Bradley-Luthy]

Did I see belinger?
Is this tim

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On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:00 AM, "Harguess, Dale"  
<dharguess at coastline.edu> wrote:

> As long as we are on the subject of traveling to Oregon in the early
> 1850's.  Does anyone know of a train that would have come from
> Washington County, Arkansas?  The names of some of the people that  
> came
> together was Howell and Marrs/Mars.
> Thanks,
> Dale
>
>
> Carla;
>
> I would suspect the relative hardships would be highly dependent on
> financial Status, my greats who came around the horn, or however were
> well
> enough off to indulge themselves in shipping great grandma's organ  
> along
> with whatever else they brought. The Melvins were probably fairly well
> off,
> I show 2g grandma as having $400 real estate and $50 real property in
> 1860.
> Interestingly in 1870 the property is listed under Step Grandpa.
>
> I am amazed that somehow all this time I was thinking Milan Morell  
> came
> west
> with them, but they are in Iowa until at least 1870 and MMM was  
> married
> in
> CA in 1858 and is in Oregon in 1860. I must have put those facts
> together
> before, but sure don't remember it!!
>
> Anyway what I figure is someone with good finances could probably  
> afford
> fairly decent accomodations (by the standards of the time) would have
> been
> better off traveling by boat. Except for one caveat and that is the  
> odds
> of
> sinking. Of course you had many of the same hazards both ways in
> disease,
> hostile natives if by land and Pirates by sea and getting lost either
> way.
>
> One possibility that I think was better overland was to hire your way
> west;
> a strong young man might be able to get a job herding or driving  
> oxen or
> some such if his personal funds didn't cover the cost of the  
> expedition.
> Of
> course a lot of people came west by hiring oon ships and then jumping
> them
> when they got her so again that is kind of a wash for the decision
> process.
>
> Someday I hope to find MMM's wagon train, makes me wonder now that I
> realize
> he didn't come with Gram if he might have come with the Wisner's from
> the
> Salem area??
>
> Les
>
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>
>
> I thought the same thing...my family was living in Southern
> Illinois...but
> then I remembered that the river systems were major transportation
> routes in
> those days.  I've never researched the issue but I'm guessing that it
> was a
> fairly expensive way to travel.  It would be interesting to compare  
> the
> rigors of ship board travel with those of the Oregon trail.
>
> Carla
>
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