Oregon Trail: This is the 19th year that Onekama students have taken the virtual trip to Oregon. This year each wagon party is using the Oregon Trail 3 CD on a Macintosh Computer. The students watch a series of documentary videos about the trip. They "dress" for the trip, decorate their Journals with their adventures, and have a great time traveling. Dear Journal, "We need to keep our animals fenced in to keep them safe and make they stay," the wagon train leader said. "I don't see why we can't just tie the darn animals up. It'd be a lot easier," Uncle John said to Ma. Despite his remark when it
came to suppertime Uncle John was quite glad to get the
other people's recipes for pie and custard. Even though
all we at on the trip was bacon and dried bread. The
supper fires were outside of the people's wagons in side
the circle. I didn't like the food much and got very
tired of it but at least I felt suceere at night. Dear Journal, Dear Journal, They said, "Let's
caulk the wagon and float across. I've always thought
that it would be safer to chalk it and float then it
would be to ford the river. Although it was a long hard
process to chalk it, it would be more likely that no one
would drown. So all I want right now is to caulk the
wagon and float across without a problem." Dear Journal, He went under. An oxen had
charged at him. My other cousin saved him . We all
thanked him. Now we are on our way to Fort Boise. Dear Journal, Every evening we try to go Hunting to get us food like buffalo, deer, elk and bear. But hunting bear is very dangerous because they could attack us. That is called mauling. Two people in our group got mauled allready. The best treatments are dress the wound and use an aniseptic on the wound. I have never got mauled before and for that I am happy. Derek, Evening Tasks I guarded the wagon all
night long. My children cook dinner and go to sleep. I
watch for wolfs and Indians. I said to my kids wake up. A
pack of wolfs are coming. So we got moving at daybreak.
Good thing. Lucas P. on night duty On the trail we have been
mugged twice after the wagon tipped on the mountain and
in the water. It was a good thing that we had extra money
to replace everything. All we mostly lost was some food,
but he hardly had any food anyway.
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Dear
Journal, Dear
Journal, When it was a dry summer we could just cross it, but it wasn't. We had to caulk our wagon and float across. It took us five days just to cross a river. We had to take everything out, then caulk it, then put everything back in. Some people on the other wagons died because they fell in and drown. It was a very sad day. We went to some of the burials. We made it across though.
I'm glad we did. Dear Diary,
Dear
Journal, Dear Journal, We have hit a few storms
and haven't lost any luggage. Our family is doing well,
but our dog Maxi died from being in fights with different
animals. We all hope everything will turn out good in the
end when we get to Oregon. Dear Journal, Dear Journal, "There arent any trees around here for miles," said John. "Then what can I cook dinner on?" I asked as MaryAnn and Emma came over. "Mommy." Said Emma. "Hang on sweety." I said "I'm talking to Unkle John." "You have to make it out of buffalo dung," said John. "Yucky" said MaryAnn "Groess", said Emma, "I don't wanna eat food off of animal poopy" "You have to
hunney" I said. "Now you and your sister go get
some and put it in a pile right here." For dinner I
made bacon and beans. Emma and Mary Ann looked discusted
when they got their food because they didn't like the
idea of how the food was cooked. At 9 PM we set up our
tent, got the blankets, and went to sleep. |