Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Travelling west
- What you needed
- $1000
- Wagon
- 4 or 6 oxen
- 1x3m long, wooden wheels and iron tyres
- Spare parts
- Food and essentials
- Kettle, frying pan, coffee pot, tin plates
- Knives, forks, axes
- Food
Anmerkungen:
- Flour, bacon, coffee, sugar, salt, jerkey, rice, tea, dried beans, baking soda, vinegar, pickles, mustard, dried fruit and tallow
- Early travellers
- The Sagars
- Rain
- Mud
- Swollen rivers
- Naomi Sagar gave birth
- Buffalo stampede
- Shot too many Buffalo
- Arguement
- Lost leader for the rest of the journey
- Wagon overturned
- The Donners
- Snow fell a month early
- Blizzards, ice and storms
- James Reed was banished
Anmerkungen:
- He killed another in self-defence
- Didn't bring enough food
- Killed Indians and eat them
- By Christmas, they hadn't had any food for 4 days.
- Resorted to cannibalism and killed each other.
- They were found. Half were dead, the others half mad.
- Followed new trail
- The Knights
- Physical barriers
- Swamp
- Low hills
- Blue Mountains
- Traded beads and mocasins for bread with Indians
- Thought they would be attacked by Indians
- Didn't bring enough water
- Drank melted snow
- The Goulds
- Cold and wet
- A lot of rain
- Traded with Indians
- Indians attacked and killed 3 men
- The Journey
- Two routes
- Oregon
- California
- Took about 5 or 6 months
- Started off in Illinois
- Split into two groups after leaving Fort Hall