Oregon Trail - If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
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1. Blackfoot: one of the tribes of Indians that settlers met on the Oregon Trail **
2. buffalo: a type of cattle with shaggy hair and up-ward curving horns
3. buffalo chips: dried buffalo droppings that pioneers burned for their campfires
4. campfire: an outdoor fire used for cooking or warmth **
5. Chimney Rock: a famous landmark; a column of rock that was about 500' tall **
6. Cholera: a disease that settlers would get from unclean drinking water or eating food that was not fully cooked.
7. chores: daily tasks, like feeding livestock, making your bed, or doing dishes
8. diary: a daily record; a journal
9. doorways: prairie dog homes in mounds in the ground **
10. Dr Marcus Whitman: a famous guide who led the first big wagon train to Oregon **
11. family: a group of people, usually related, that live together **
12. fort: buildings where settlers could stop to buy/trade supplies for their journey
13. fried bread: this was done to the dough instead of baking it **
14. gingham: soft, brightly colored cotton used for women's skirts or dresses **
15. Indians: a race of people native to America
16. jerking: a way to dry the buffalo meat so it would last longer.
17. landmark: a distinctive stone or tree - Chimney Rock, for example - used to help pioneers find their way along the Oregon Trail
18. Manifest Destiny: a belief that the United States had a right to all of the land between the east and west coasts
19. moccasins: soft but strong shoes made of deer or buffalo skin
20. Oregon Trail: a historical route to the western United States extending from various cities on the Missouri River to Oregon and the West coast.
21. overlander: someone who travels over land to reach their destination.
22. oxen: a bull that was used to pull wagons and farm machinery.
23. pioneer: someone who explores or goes to live in a place previously unexplored or uninhabited.
24. Prairie Schooner: another word for the covered wagons the settlers used to travel west in.
25. ransom: money paid for the return of something or someone
26. scarce: not much at all or just a small amount available
27. scow: large flat boats that took wagons across some of the rivers.
28. tipi: an Indian tent
29. trade: when you give one thing for another **
30. wagon train: a group of covered wagons that went together on the long trip west.