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Summary Of The Oregon Trail
This essay is about the Oregon trail and the challenges they faced
My first paragraph is about Hunger. First there was very little food John Ball and his companions were very hungry and they ate anything that came across them except snakes. This journey was way more difficult than anything they have experienced.
They also have to travel through ragged ravines and over steep ridges .
Second After they traveled through the ragged rains and over steep ridges they found Indians. The Pioneers got rest when they found the Indian camp. The pioneers paid the Indians for dry buffalo meat and they feasted. There was like 200 pioneers and the almost 200 Indians socializing with the pioneers
The last is paragraph is about clothing. Heat and comfort are

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