On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:11 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

2/3's - 3/4's of those who 'went west' on the Oregon Trail were such abysmal failures that, even if they made it, they eventually vanished from the records.

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Really? Then they were doing better than the vast majority of humanity, over the course of civilization. :)

Richard Aiken

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