In the essay “On the Oregon Trail” by David Dary explains the emigrants' acquaintance along the Oregon Trail during 1846 and how they wrote their memories during the journey more than twelve surviving letters and include pieces of information about them that six emigrants kept in fewer diaries. Dary recounts how the emigrants took a journey with the nine wagons belonging to the Reed and Donner families in Illinois and what they went through when they traveled miles away to arrive in California between 1846 and 1948. Dary also focuses on participation and the journey of Lansford Hastings and Edwin Bryant who is not a camp doctor, but had two friends who are going to California where he also arranges for some emigrants from his company to join his group, but the emigrants had some difficulties on following Hastings and the trip didn't go so well. The diaries contained many events written down, but they actually happened. From the beginning Bryant was headed to California with William H. Russell and some other men of the company were unhappy with the slowness of the journey. Bryant's group was immediately put under pressure to make the trip more challenging. To solve the problem he then calculated the distances of Independence from Sutter's Fort based on the direction in which he was traveling, but Bryant also sent some letters to his emigrant friends advising them not to take in the same direction about eighty emigrant wagons positioned by Fort Bridger in the direction of Hasting. The eighty-seven emigrants were in the Donner company and debating whether they should follow the Hastings limit. Hastings wrote a letter to the last emigrants who were to travel during the...... middle of paper...... who are all dead, even Mrs. Donner was manipulated by an unknown person, but of the eighty-nine emigrants who left with Hastings, forty-five of them continue to live. The Donner party was only a page in the history of the Oregon Trail, but the importance was the reality of the 1,200 emigrants who arrived in Oregon and the other 1,400 arrived safely in California, but the diaries had something to do with everything, they had many events that would happen if someone was about to die The diaries say everything that will happen on any given day. Edwin Bryant supported emigrants so much to come to California through a route that wasn't even difficult. Emigrants faced a difficult journey in the 1840s. Nothing went wrong as they predicted, but at least some of them survived and went to California, although the rest made it to Oregon..