#623: Oregon explain

History of 19th-century Oregon

[Timeline, with relevant images next to various dates.]

1805

[Two men stand at the edge of a cliff. One has a walking staff.]

Arrival of Lewis & Clark

1825

Early settlers arrive

1841

Oregon Trail established

1843

Larger western migration begins

1848

[A horse is pulling a covered wagon. A gun peeks out the back.]

Huge wave of 500,000+ settlers arrives from Missouri. Largely children and adolescents, most bring nothing but cartloads of bullets for hunting.

1849

[Cueball and Megan with rifles aim at something.]

Overhunting begins to devastate ecosystem

Dysentery epidemic.

1850

[Tombstones and bodies.]

Shooting deaths skyrocket

Typhoid epidemic

Measles epidemic

Cholera epidemic

1851

All mammals larger than squirrels wiped out by overhunting

Massive famine

1852

[Sun low over a land, devoid of life. Scattered remains of corpses and skeletons.]

Last survivors flee

Oregon territory abandoned