S.S.+Oregon+Trail+(QF10)

E1) My Family and I going to leave for California at the end of May. My name is Paul and I'm a 14 year old boy. I lived on a farm most of my life and went to school in the winter. But now we are moving with some of my friends to California because it has better soil and air quality.

E2) We just finished packing for our trip and we are taking 100lbs of bacon, 250lbs of flour, 15lbs of rice, 30lbs of corn meal, 25lbs of sugar, 2bushles of corn, 2 extra wheels for the wagon and 2 oxen.

E3) We started our trip today and we plan on traveling 50miles a day. Along with traveling with our friends we joined a wagon train, that consists of mostly doctors, so if we get sick they can help.

E4) We have been traveling for about a month and today one of our oxen died. So my dad traded some of our supplies for a new oxen. He traded with one of the doctors but i don't know what he traded. We decided to continue because we had to make a 50mile travel that day. We decide to set up camp later that night.

E5) The next day we woke to find that our food was eaten by wolves. As the parents counted the food we played around the oxen for a little bit. After the parents found out that we lost 1/4 of our food we kept going because we couldn't do anything about it.

E6) Nothing Interesting Happened.

E7) Some of the people from our wagon trail have gotten sick, with small pox, and one of them is my brother. The elderly and younger children prey for them while they are in the wagon and the doctors treat them and hope they'll get better.

E8) My brother and many others are getting better but some did not. Some died but most lived.

E9) The Epidemic is mostly over, there are only two people left and im happy to say my brother is better.

E10) We just left Iowa and we are now in Indian Territory so we should be careful. There have been reports of Indians killing people for their stuff and there also been reports of Indians helping the travelers by giving them supplies. I hope we meet the friendly ones.

E11) We just went over a river, luckily it was shallow so we were able to wade the oxen through. I have heard people die trying to cross rivers.

E12) We just meet some Indians and they gave us some corn, water, and about 3lbs of beef per person!!

E13) Nothing Interesting happened today.

E14) We are almost at California its probably another week but we are running out of food.... so my dad plans on buying food in the next town before we get there.

E15) Dad buys food.

E16) We made it to California and its beautiful and the ocean is so clear i can see the fish. There are farms as far as the eye can see and there is a little town in the middle of it all.