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The only people before you to make this journy where fur trappers. The only people that really wanted you to make this journy wher developers and politicians.
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Pioneer families take there wagons and neet at a convenient point, Independence, Missouri.
Spring is the only time to start your long journey west, So the town is packed with people -
The pioneer families set off in a long line of wagons.
Wagon drivers race to get to the front to avoid other wagons dust.
No one is able to agree on anything so they have elect officers. -
On the trip there where sand storms and sand got everywhare.
When the animals got injured we would have to stop and cover the injured part of them with hot tar -
On our jouney we incounterd Indains and had to pay them so they would not kill us. That was not good
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Today we had to set fire to the ground so that the stamped of buffalo whould not kill us
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So today we had to eat rottan food and drink mud water
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Lots of people die trying to cross rivers.
to crose a river you have to find a ford or you have to build a raft -
So today we stoped at the fort to resuply our food
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We are slowly loseng our animals and without them we will die.
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if we dont move fast we will get caught in the moutans in the snow and die
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we have reached our destanation. and so now we have to build our house and start farming