Historians have had to work really hard to undo the myth of the Oregon Trail created by the game.
They’re like, “Yes, it was perilous. Yes, people died. But it wasn’t quite the suicide mission that the game makes it out to be.”
According to the statistics available on Wikipedia, about 400,000 people made the trip between 1834 and 1867, and an estimated 10~20,000 died. That’s 2.5~5%, which is still a lot…
