OREGON+TRAIL

= OREGON TRAIL =



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 * May 1, 1951**

We're off on the Oregon Trail! Five families are headed west for new land, adventure and opportunity. We are the Millers, the Applegates, the Sutters, the Barlows and the Parkmans. We got ourselves to Independence, Missouri where we met other wagons at Courthouse Square. After getting provisions, four out of our five wagons decided to fill up their water barrels with water (the fifth wagon decided to wait until out on the trail). When it was rumored that the water was contaminated, we had to dump our water. Luckily, the Sutters were willing to share water with us until we could fill up at a river.


 * May 2**



We came to the Blue River which we had to cross. We could see a storm coming up in the distance. Though we were tired, we all decided to cross right away instead of waiting out the storm. The crossing took hours and we were tired and wet afterward but we all got across safely.


 * May 5 -** Diary of John Barlow



We have reached the Wakarusa River. I looked at the water and stared at the green water snakes and leeches. One of the Sutters said that a Native American called Fish (don`t know why) helps emigrants get across the river. We found Fish and payed him ten dollars per wagon to get us across the river. It took seventy hours to get across. We made it without losing anything.


 * May 16, 1851 -** FROM THE DIARY OF ANDROMEDA SUTTER




 * The Narrows**

When we crossed The Narrows we had to cross one -by- one.There are rattle snakes there! Three people got bitten: Frank Applegate, Mary Barlow and Harry Miller.We will use a tournaquet to try and save them. A tournaquet is something to stop blood flowing.We hope they survive!


 * June 6th**

Phew, they all survived! We come to a creek. We come to Valley Hills. We are collecting firewood. We come to the Indians and they said we had pay them for crossing their land. And we paid them! The Miller wagon burned down because their wagon made a bad desision because the Sioux indians came up to us because we were trying to cross their island and the Miller wagon said they were going to try to make friends but for their back up they were going to shoot the Indians. They tried to shoot the Sioux Indians but the Sioux Indians back fired them and burned down their wagon. After that the three people in that wagon had to join different wagons, so one of them named Andrew Miller joined the Parkman wagon and another traveler named Mike Miller joined the Barlow wagon, and last but not least Harry Miller joined the Sutter wagon. Most of the wagons wanted Mike because he was a carpenter. If your wagon broke on the way he could re build it and your wagon could get right back on the trail and get to Oregon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 * July ?, 1851 -From the diary of Levi Sutter**



We have lost track of time. We are at the spot of the Grattan Massacre. Fort Laramie is close. The Sioux indians are the people who started the Grattan Massacre which could of been avoided. The Sioux Indians stole a cow and Lt. Grattan got angry because they broke a treaty. Then there was a huge battle and the cheif got killed.


 * July 1851**



We are at the campfire and someone tolled use a stoy about Scotts Bluff. Hiram Scott was a person on the trail and got sick. The people in his wagon knew that if they took care of him they would died. The next day the people in his wagon said that they would go to get berries but they ran off and got into a other wagon. About 3 or 4 years later some people found his bones 60 miles from where they left him.


 * July 1851 from the diary of Johny Sutter**

today we got to ayers nauturel bridge it is a natruel sandstone bridge. it is 200 feet tall we crossed the bridge and it was beuitful you could see miles away. I think that it was formed by rain water grainding the sand stone away we had decition to cross the bridge or go under the bridge and cross the river our wagon choose to cross the bridge it was the right choice if we went under the bridge our wagon could of tipped over.

July 22

We made it to Independence rock, Independince rock got its name from a person named homes fitspatrick he made it to this rock on