The Oregon Trail has been called the world's longest graveyard. It's a 2,000-mile road that averages one buried body every 80 yards. Out of the 350,000 emigrants that traveled along it, one out of every 10 died along the way. Most likely, if you're a young-ish Oregonian, you already knew that. The legendary Oregon Trail video game made the deadliness of the Trail common knowledge,...
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