Julie+Charisse+Mohammed



tool boxes water containers spare axles pulled by mule and/or oxen meat pork bacon wheat coffee beans spices

800 pounds of flour 200 pounds of sugar 25 pounds of salt and pepper 200 pounds of beans 100 pounds of dried fruit 75 pounds of coffee 2000 pounds total

note: no more than 2400 pounds should b taken in on wagon, causing some familes to take more than one wagon

other items

cooking utensils guns and ammuntion eating utnsils

h __Bedding and Tent__ __Supplies__ Blankets Feather Beds Ground Cloths Pillows Tent Poles Stakes Ropes __Cooking Utensils__ Dutch Oven Kettle Skillet Reflector Oven Coffee pot Teapot Butcher Knife Ladle Tin tableware Water keg Matches Handy Articles __Surgical instruments__ Liniments Bandages Campstool Chamber Pot Washbowl Lanterns Candle molds Tallow Spyglass Scissors Needles, Pins, Thread __Food__ Flour Bacon Coffee Baking Soda Corn Meal Hardtack Dried Beans Molasses Vinegar Pepper Eggs Salt Sugar Rice Tea __Clothes__ Wool sack coats Rubber coats Cotton dresses Wool pantaloons Buckskin pants Duck trousers Cotton shirts Flannel shirts Cotton socks Brogans Boots Felt hat Palm-leaf sun hat Green goggles Sunbonnet __Tools and Extra__ __Equipment__ Set of augers Gimlet Hammer Plow Spade Axles Linchpins Spokes Heavy Ropes Oxbows Ax Hoe Shovel Whetstone Kingbolts Ox shoes Wagon tongue Chains __Luxuries__ Canned foods Schoolbooks Dolls Jewelry Silverware Iron stoves Plant cuttings Musical instruments Family albums China Fine linens Furniture

when the trail got crowed, in 1849 campiing became more difficult because they couldnt find fuel for the fire

15 miles a day for nearly 6 months.