Life As Life As a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail Jeri Freedman Cavendish Square New York
Introduction Imagine leaving your home saying good-bye to your friends getting in a covered wagon with your family and riding far away to a place you’ve never seen People called pioneers did that in the 1800s Pioneers were people who wished to live in the western United States There they could get land to start farms Going west pioneers had to cross large fields called plains and go over the Rocky Mountains Many pioneers followed the Oregon Trail a 2,200-mile 3,500-kilometer route from the Midwest to Oregon Along the way they faced many dangers Life As a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
Families traveled across the plains to a new home in Oregon
