010 - When you should pack your weight in bacon

Show Notes: Podcast 10 - When you should pack your weight in bacon Today's Sponsor: Valley Food Storage Coupon Code: NSRI30 Discount: 30% off your order of $100 or more 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