The Oregon Trail
Facing challenges and dangers along the trail
The immigrants and settlers were strong people but sometimes the trail got the best of them. So did Indian tribes.
Gravestones
These Gravestones represent all the people that died on the Oregon trail and their Gravestones.
Grizzly Bears
This is the kind of animal that the immigrants had to face. Even though these animals killed a lot of them, they still didn't get in the way.
Indians
These are the kind of Indians that attacked and killed the immigrants. They were also the ones that took the dead immigrants cloths. They were a tough threat, but the immigrants fought through it.
There were a lot of problems and challenges. But the immigrants fought through it.
Oxen
Even though there were a lot of deaths, there were solutions to stop it from happening. Like the Ferries and the doctors.
Rivers
These are the type of rivers the immigrants had to cross on there covered wagons. It was a huge challenge.
Covered Wagon
This is what the immigrants rode in across the country. They stored almost everything in there from where the last lived. So you can imagined how cramped it would be.
Doctors
This stethoscope represents the doctors that saved all the immigrants and Indians. Like Dr. Whitman. He risked his life to save all the Indians, but in the end they blamed him for a deadly disease that killed most of their tribe so they murdered him.