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Finish Bound for Oregon (no jobs!)
Catch up in your Oregon Trail diary. Some of you need to finish writing your letter to Ft. Kearney. Everyone needs to write about today's scenario. Extensive details follow:
Scenario 7
California Crossing -
crossing the Platte River for the first time
Mile 485.
The South Platte. Shallow.. Doesn't move too fast. And has gentle
banks. Easy as pie, right? NOT! This body of moving water is a
mile wide. There are no trees or broken branches to put under the
wheels. And the river bottom is quicksand! Imagine how fast your
wagon wheels will sink to the hubs in that stuff! How are you
going to get through this one? Any ideas? By the way, there are no
pine trees to give you pitch for caulking.
banks. Easy as pie, right? NOT! This body of moving water is a
mile wide. There are no trees or broken branches to put under the
wheels. And the river bottom is quicksand! Imagine how fast your
wagon wheels will sink to the hubs in that stuff! How are you
going to get through this one? Any ideas? By the way, there are no
pine trees to give you pitch for caulking.
Fate: You sink! Almost. You could have lost everything, including your
dog(s). You didn't know that you couldn't go straight across. Here you learn
a lesson about how to cross a river. First, you traverse the river diagonally
down with the current, then halfway across you have to turn back up against
the current - sometimes adding another half mile to the traverse. This time you
ended up paying a Frenchman to help you out...a tin of sugar and a tin of
flour out of your supplies. Needless to say, everyone is very tired and a bit
out of sorts.
dog(s). You didn't know that you couldn't go straight across. Here you learn
a lesson about how to cross a river. First, you traverse the river diagonally
down with the current, then halfway across you have to turn back up against
the current - sometimes adding another half mile to the traverse. This time you
ended up paying a Frenchman to help you out...a tin of sugar and a tin of
flour out of your supplies. Needless to say, everyone is very tired and a bit
out of sorts.
Tonight there is no place to graze the animals. You have to feed them flour.
All families subtract 14 time points and 14 food points.
All families subtract ten dollars for your payment to the Frenchman.
All families subtract an extra food point for the flour you had to feed your
animals.
animals.
Journal
What lesson did you learn about river crossings here?
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