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Westward Trails Interactive Map This incredible map allows students to choose a trail and click the points on the trail to learn information and facts about each. Scavenger Hunts for this Map: Interactive | Printable |
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Westward Trails Interactive Tours Pick a trail below and follow the links to travel the entire trail. Switch to a different trail at any time. Oregon | California | Santa Fe | Mormon |
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Dangers on the Westward Journey Deadly storms, diseases, rattlesnakes, thundering buffalo herds, raging rivers, withering heat, broken wagons, and bandits and thiefs were only some of the perils possible on the thousand-mile trails that led to the west. Click above to learn all about them. |
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Oh Pioneers! - Adventure Game on the California Trail This is a super fun California Trail adventure game based on life on the westward trails. Students must purchase supplies and answer the multiple choice questions to advance along the 2,000 mile-long path. For each question answered ocrrectly, students will advance 40 miles. If they answer incorrectly, they'll have to face one of the path's many "hazards" such as buffalo stampedes, tornadoes, and others. Students can also opt to sabotage other wagons to acquire additional supplies. Students can save their games and return to the same computer to complete them. |
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The Donner Party and the Forlorn Hope The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out in 1846 to migrate west to California but became trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Their journey was delayed by a difficult and untested shortcut, leading to severe hardship and loss of life during the harsh winter.
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