The Oregon Trail
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on the wagons rolling west For the 18th year fifth graders are off to Oregon using the computer disk Oregon Trail III. They are recording their progress in personal journals. Selected entries will be typed and added to this page. |
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We are going to California for gold and to build a house. When we travel I am going to keep a journal and talk about how it is there in California. ...Taylor
We are having bad luck. No fish. No animals. Just candy to eat. I got a bad cold on my birthday. Amber got bit trying to hunt. It was a buck. She tried to shoot it and she didn't get to run away before it bit her.I got burned in a fire. Like I said, lots of bad luck. ...David E. |
Dear Journal, We made it across the first river and the second river. It was freaky at first. Then we got used to it. My Mommy is healthy and so is my sister Elizabeth. Lily had a bad cold and she sprained her wrist. Later my mommy got a bad cold. We didn't want to do any hunting. It is too easy to hurt yourself with a gun. Maybe we will hunt tomorrow. ...Carmen The days on the Oregon trail are not easy! The days are hot and often there is not enough water for the animals. The days are very dusty. Often I worry that we will die of choking on the dust. We have been through three fires, but luckily no one died in them. Then David was the first to die. He died by being killed by a bear. JayLee and I died of sickness. Josh is our remaining person. Three times he nearly died but he recovered by gathering herbs. He is good with a gun and shoots good game. We have all seen a buffalo stampede. Usually there is only one buffalo but once there were five. I shot five but we couldn't take them all because they weighed 2480 lbs. When we went fishing we did not get so much as a bite. ...Julie S.
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We Reached Oregon! We were the first group to arrive in Oregon City. We had to cross the Rocky Mountains. We had to trade our two art sets for $5 so we could go on this special toll road. It was a better road. When we arrived we talked to the Mayor of Oregon City and we were given a nice little cabin on the prairie on the outskirts of town. It looks like good farm land. There was lots of grass and trees and a mountain in the distance. Back to Day 1 On to Day 5 |
 You're invited! to our Open House to celebrate that we got to Oregon Country....Carmen, Alyssa, Mara, Nathan, the wagonmaster |
