The Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail 1800 - 1847
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Leaving Home

• Many people wanted to go to Oregon
• But people also didnt want to leave their loved
  ones
• They also only took their most valuable
  possessions

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A bunch of men and not women heading out to the
Oregon
trail.
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Brave Women

• Two women Narcissa and Eliza wanted to make a
  difference.
• Narcissa wanted to prove that women could survive
  the Oregon trail
• They were the first two women to actually travel
  the Oregon trail and makeit to Oregon.

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Long Hard Journey

• The Oregon Trail was long
• Harsh
• Most including Narcissa and Eliza ate dry meat
  buffalo
• It was so hot that Narcissa and Eliza said it
  felt like walking into an oven.
• Most people traveled in this condition for about
  six months or so.

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There are now women and men on the Oregon trail.
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Amazing Facts

• Even though it took about six months to get to
  Oregon over 300,000 people had already traveled
  the Oregon trail.
• Thousands of those people were children and
  women.
• Many women children and men died on the trail,
  and were buried beside the trail.

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Narcissa and Eliza

• Narcissa and Eliza were two brave women
• Narcissas job in life was to persuade people to
  move to Oregon
• So many people moved there by going on the
  Oregon trail that till this day you can still see
  deep ruts of wagon wheels today.
• We remember them still today.

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Credits
Banks James A.et.al. United States adventures in
Time and Place. New YorkMcGraw Hill School
Division
New Perspectives on the West Narcissa and
Marcus Whitman 5-24-05
Stein Conrad R. the Story of the Oregon Trail.
Childrens Press Chicago 1984
Time Line Maker. http//www.teach-nology.com/
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