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The slides that im about to show you are about my journey through the unforgiving Oregon trail. Through the moutains and the seemingly endless plains. __1st slide__ -Our journey took 5-6 months, and was 2,170 miles, it seemed to take forever! -The trail ran through (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon) -The trail ran through moutains passes and plains. Nobody knew the pass we found, we didn't tell anybody either. -Just because the trail was long and had very rough terrain, didn't mean thats the only problem. The other main problem was weather. -The biggest issue was snow. Just think about trying to get a wagon through snow on a moutain pass, it isnt fun!

__2nd slide__ -We that passed through the oregon trail had to pack a lot of stuff. We bought everything back home at West Virginia, because if we bought it near the trail, it would be much moer expensive. -The toughest thing was keeping pork and meet fresh. So we hade to pack it tight becuse bacon was an exelent source of fat, and that could be used for energy. -One of the biggest things to bring was flower for baking bread, bread was on of the main things to bring. -Even though it wasn't as tasty as it is today, was very important to have, so you can have you grain.

__3rd Slide__ -So obviosly, one of the main things to have is, well, a wagon! -Wagons were also very dangerous! If kids fell in front of the wagon in front of the wheel, they would be squished! -most emigrants used a oxen, because there cheep and they could feed off the plants on the trail. -Their is obvisoly a chance that -some used a horse but they were expensive, and could not feed off the plants -Wagons were big but not huge, so this also made it a problem to pack food.

__4th slide__ -Even though the idea of manifest destinay (moveing west) was big and a lot of people went for the idea many did not make it. -one of the main reasons was disease, mesals, small pocks, all of those -the reason why the spred so easy is every body used the same route. -Its pretty much the same as if everybody in the school, coughing in their hands and using the same door knob. -If you think about it, diease was'nt to hard to spread.

__5th slide__ -Pretty soon all of the family went to Oregon in cluding Mothers/Women. -It actually it wasn't a bad idea to bring mothers. -Most mothers could usually cook food better than the men. -They could also keep keep kids (if any) in line and help out a lot. -They also knew to come because they knew if they made it, they could get some good land.

__6th slide__ -Even though it was a dangerous thing to do, we wernt the only ones who did it. -Alot of people attempted it but 1 in 10 died, and half a million people attempted it! -So there were a lot of deaths! Some people didn't have a wagon and they walked 2,170 miles barefoot. -Ther were times when we passed dead bodyes on the trail -A lot of people tryed to catch a ride, but we didnt trust them.

__7th slide__ -Near the moutains was the worst. -It was a lot colder and less food for the oxen. -You can obviosly see that a wagon dosnt have heat or is resistant. -So it was very, very cold. -This is when I felt bad for the people who had to walk this bare foot.

__8th slide__ -If you did end up making it you have a lot to look forward to! -640 acers that is, and the land is dirt cheep -My family and I decided to open up a farm and sell good to traviler along the way -we can make good money by rasing up the prices because people cant turn it down when their hungry! -So that was my adventuure, do you think you could make it?