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Pioneers who crossed the western mountains in the mid-1800s were threatened by

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Native Americans, Disease, Starvation, Exhaustion
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Mostly it was exhaustion, lack of supplies, new diseases (and old disease that became more common.) Also cold weather, bandits, and oxen dying on the trip.

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