Oregon+Trail-+RCW

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Dangers Q: 1) What are the dangers you face on the journey?

A: on the way there we come across a mother and cub bears.the mother was gettting ready to attack one of the oxen for being to close, so we gave int some of the few meat we had left to save our ox. my father gets smallpox half way threw the journy he gets very ill and i have to take care of him as well as drive the wagon. he gets better 4 days later.

2) What deases do you come in contact with? A: During the journey Father gets smallpox. he is sick for 4 days them is able to keep working.

3) indian contact a:We come in contact with the winebego tribe. they were nice people and gave me and my father shelter for a few days. we offered them a buffalo skull we found a few day earlier and they traded us an ox. 4)River Crossing A: At the beginning of the journey our first obstical was the mississippi river. we had found a boat and crossed the river with all our gear.

Journey : 1) Each Day we ussally travel 15 miles a day.

2) Our food has been running low for 2 days now, Today we came across and dear and its baby my dad took his rifle and i took mine and we shot both of them for now we have enough food for a few day if we keep small portions at a time.

7) We had losed one of our oxen when we came across a family of bears and our oxen tryed to run away and broke its leg in the prosses.we came across a tribe of indian in wisconsin and we traded them a buffallo skull and beads and they gave us a ox for us to carrie on our way

Journal entry 2

today was a good day. we got over our first obstical, the mississippi river. a few days earlier a friend of my dad's know a rich family that is also going to the west so he convinced them to let us tag along for the trip over the mssissippi river. we went caulking over the river as the family took our stuff we met up on the other side after 2 hours of waiting for them. we are going to travel trough the night, so we can make it to wisconsin by tommorow.

journal entry 3

Today, it was raining and now, rufus smells bad. two week ago we went to and indian village to stock up on suplies. this tribe was to winebego tribe indigenous to wisconcin. they are a very friendly tribe and gave us shelter for a few days, they even gave rufus a bone. 3 days earlier we came across a family of bears in the woods.Betty ,our ox, got scared and tried to make a run for it, she broke her leg and we had to put her down. we traded them our dead ox for another ox and we are now heading for Wyoming now.