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How Expansive Is Oregon Trail History? with Professor Margaret Huettl

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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The New Oregon Trail Game

The game is still the same, it's till you join a wagon party, you go west, you can die of dysentery. Thei're stories about, like, native people just trying to findah each other across long distances. And i think that's a first step, right? Because when you have to recognize that this place was not empty, that it was full of indigenous people who were living these vibrant lives.

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