My 11-year-old Spring Onion had a lot of interest in the Oregon Trail when he was younger and he likes to cook. Can’t wait any to share this with him. Thanks for posting this @bbqboy.
Thank you for posting this, new to my family! Our son has been showing us Max Miller’s episodes in his Tasting History video series. Here is his on the Oregon Trail.
Cool. I haven’t seen that episode. Thanks. 
I’ve (virtually) traveled the Oregon Trail many, MANY times, but every time, I die of dysentery. Never completed the journey.
Thanks very much @bbqboy and @Madrid for the thread and video. A branch of my surname family moved to Pendleton but I don’t remember just when. Last recorded residence I had for them was in Des Moines and they were probably there only a few years. Sometime in the 1850s is the vague thought I have but I’d have to dig into my file cabinets of geneological research to be more exact.
I never had the opportunity to do any more research on Oregon (and many other branches of my surname and allied families all over the US). Even at that I know more about them than more than half of that generation (11 names in the handed down family history).
I appreciate picking up a little bit more of what life might have been like for them.
This is quite a long time after the periods I reenact, but its pretty close to what many folks make at my events. Our fare tends to be a little more palatable as we are near towns and supplement with hunting (that’s our story!)
