77. The Oregon Trail from Westward Expansion to Computer Game with Sharon McMahon

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, Sharon dives into some of the myths vs. facts about Manifest Destiny and the Oregon Trail. What did it really look like, in the mid-1800s, for a family to travel the trail from Independence, Missouri to the beautiful Willamette Valley region of Oregon? All-in-all, about 400,000 people traveled along the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s, hoping to move from crowded Eastern communities to work the riches of the land out West. Much of what we know was probably gleaned from playing the computer game, The Oregon Trail. Chances are, it was one of the first games you played in your youth on a computer, but do you know its humble Minnesotan history?

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0:20.3	Hello, my friends.
0:22.2	Happy to have you here today.
0:24.2	Welcome, and I've got so much interesting, good stuff to cram into one episode about the gorgeous state of Oregon.
0:38.0	So let's dive in.
0:39.2	I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Sesso podcast.
0:45.2	Oregon is really beautiful, by the way.
0:47.1	I meant that it has a lot of waterfalls and like mountains and greenery and ocean.
0:51.4	It has a lot of natural beauty.
0:55.0	When you were growing up, did you call it Oregon?
0:59.8	Or did you call it Oregon?
1:02.1	In Minnesota, we definitely said Oregon.
1:05.8	And that is not the way people from Oregon say it.
1:08.5	They say it Oregon.
1:10.2	So FYI.
1:13.7	Let's go back in time for just a moment to the mid 1800s.
1:18.4	When the United States was still locked in a boundary dispute with Great Britain,
1:23.4	involving the parallel that extended from Minnesota all the way out to the West Coast.
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