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Pack up all the essentials that are light. Pack 5 months worth of food and make sure you bring a plow
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When you live on the Eastern Coast, you use the Oregon Trail to go West
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You meet up at Independence, Missouri the western most town and where you can buy all the essentials you didn't bring.
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You leave off in a dust cloud, trying to get to the front of the wagon train.
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The ride is hard with sand in your face, in your eyes and all of your belongings. When it rains, it is hard to cook and sleep.
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Sooner or later you will run into Indians, who will demand that you pay a toll or make unreasonable trades.
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Buffalos can make hard to maneuver a wagon train and they are difficult targets to kill.
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As the trip goes on, it becomes harder to cook because of damp sugar, stale coffee, and moldy flour.
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A ford is where water is shallow enough to cross, but it is still hard for the animals to pull.
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Forts are a place where pioneers replenish their supplies.
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Your animals are tired and there is less for them to eat and drink and you have to lighten your load.
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Your trapped in snow and starving. Areas are becoming harder to cross.
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You are at your home in Oregon building your house, cutting down trees, and cutting down the undergrowth.
