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    The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure
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    The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Matt Doeden

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    You’re living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a wagon train? Serve as a trail guide for a group of settlers? Try to cope with the changes in your way of life as a western American Indian? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781476598260
    The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure
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    Matt Doeden

    Matt Doeden began his career as a sports writer. Since then, he's spent more than a decade writing and editing children's nonfiction. Matt lives in Minnesota with his family.

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      I love Choose Your Own Adventure books. I think they are so much fun and really adds an element of excitement to a story when you have a hand in the ending.

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    The Oregon Trail - Matt Doeden

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Cover

    Title Page

    About Your Adventure

    Chapter 1:On the Oregon Trail

    Chapter 2: Alone on the Plains

    Chapter 3: Leading the Way

    Chapter 4: On the California Trail

    Chapter 5: Life After the Trail

    Timeline

    Other Paths to Explore

    Read More

    Internet Sites

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    Copyright

    Back Cover

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    ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

    YOU are living in the United States in the mid-1800s—the time of the Oregon Trail.

    In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

    Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

    YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

    CHAPTER 1

    On the Oregon Trail

    The mid-1800s were a time of expansion and exploration for the United States. Americans spread out across North America. The promise of a new life called to many. They claimed land for farming and raising livestock.

    By the 1840s thousands of people were packing their belongings into wagons and heading west. Most followed the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail—a trip that took most settlers five or six months to complete. Long wagon trains rumbled across the plains of present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. Other trails branched off from the Oregon Trail. They led to California, Utah, and other places.

    Wagon trains crossed the plains, heading west on the Oregon Trail.

    While some people headed west looking for land, others rushed to California to search for gold. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at the sawmill he built for John Sutter on the bank of the South Fork American River near Coloma, California. Stories of the gold brought thousands of people to California who hoped to strike it rich for themselves.

    Life was hard on the Oregon Trail. Much of the trail cut through the grasslands of the Great Plains. Settlers were far from civilization. Diseases such as cholera and smallpox were deadly. Floods, storms, and droughts threatened travelers and their animals. River crossings were dangerous. And while many American Indian groups left the travelers alone, others were less welcoming. Some Indians stole settlers’ animals. Others attacked or killed the travelers because they felt threatened.

    The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the United States and opened the West for expansion.

    The dangers didn’t stop the settlers, though. Most left from Independence, Missouri. They followed the trail across the plains. They passed landmarks such as Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Soda Springs, Fort Boise, and the Snake River along the way. Those who made it to Oregon found fertile land for the taking.

    Could you survive the perils of the trail to make a new, better life?

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