You laugh and push them away. Ma enters your small camp, pulling your dairy cow behind her. Ma nods, tying Trixie carefully to the back of the wagon. They just wag their tails. No tasty bacon for you lazy hounds. You slip the massive, shaggy dogs each half a bacon strip anyway. Their tails wag gratefully. We have to make sure we conserve our supplies and plan out exactly what we should ration.
Your mouth waters at the thought of dessert. You also keep a journal of your time on the Trail. Whittaker approaches your campsite. Howard, Mrs. Howard, good morning. Whittaker, is a skilled carpenter and is expected to be instrumental in fixing broken axles and repairing damaged wheels on the Trail.
They have three children: Annie and Matthew, who are about your age, and a baby named William. Annie and Matthew have daily chores like you, but they also have a horse and some livestock. They get to take turns riding on horseback to herd loose livestock, including your own cow, Trixie, who always wanders off. You wish you had a horse, too. After only a few days of walking, your legs already ache.
Whittaker shakes her head. Pa frowns and glances at Ma. Whittaker points. Pa adjusts his spectacles. We should ask someone who knows the Oregon Trail better than we do. From here, your task is to build up a settlement worth calling home - chopping down trees for lumber, building houses for workers, and establishing businesses for cold, hard cash.
Surprisingly for the genre, you can actually do quite a lot of actions at once thanks to a generous energy system. Most actions cost one energy point to perform, but harvest times are suspiciously short and bonus energy plentiful, meaning the first few hours will have you tapping with abandon. Both games look great, with well-animated cartoon graphics bringing the little town to life, and both managed to suck in even this grizzled old gamer in with their speed.
But, unlike Sims Social , American Settler simply runs out of things for you to do too quickly. Congress passed the Pacific Wagon Road Act, allowing the survey and construction of wagon roads. A segment of the first such national road built in the West is the Lander Trail , a section miles in length between a point near present-day South Pass , Wyo.
The route saved travelers 60 miles compared to the more traditional route of the Oregon-California Trail through Fort Bridger. The Lander Trail was named for Frederick William Lander, chief engineer and later superintendent for the project—a volatile but effective leader who was nationally famous in his day.
Emigrants bound for Oregon or California in the s on the government-built Lander Trail faced serious dangers crossing the New Fork River, as they usually had to do so at high water. Recently the site has been developed into an attractive historical park in Sublette County in western Wyoming. On a jittery night in , a lone warrior stole three horses from a California-bound wagon train west of present Glenrock, Wyo.
Early next morning, emigrant Martin Ringo died from an accidental gunshot. His grave is still there, on private land. Johnny Ringo, his son, was later a famous outlaw. Many Oregon Trail diarists noted the distinctive, conical shape of foot-high Knob Hill, southwest of present Douglas, Wyo. British travel writer Richard Burton was skeptical of the tale that Brigham Young had preached a sermon there.
The Magills were bound for Oregon. In , road surveyor L. Bishop moved the grave to a site nearby, where it is now marked by the Oregon-California Trails Association. At Red Buttes , west of present Casper , Wyo. Long a boundary marker for tribes, the spot quickly became well known to emigrants for its beauty and for marking a new stage of the journey.
In July , several members of the Kelly-Larimer wagon train were killed by a large party of Oglala Sioux. The graves of five victims—7-year-old Mary Kelly and four men—are located near present Glenrock, Wyo.
Fanny Kelly , held captive by the Sioux, later wrote a book about her trials. On a high bluff above the creek mouth the U. Army in would build Fort Fetterman , which became an important supply base in the wars with the Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux in the following decade.
Beyond it, at the base of a hill lay Mineral Lake, an alkali pond. About 20 miles west of present Casper , Wyo. Emigrants called it Rock Avenue. In the s and s, road builders blasted away some of the rocks. Part of the pioneer flavor of the place was lost, but much remains. But after traffic boomed with the gold rush, they were more often disappointed: Pioneers had cut down trees; livestock had eaten all the grass and muddied the water.
Poetry, shouts and song—year after year, reactions were similar when Oregon Trail emigrants managed the steep climb up Prospect Hill , also called Ryan Hill , on the road from the North Platte to Independence Rock. The sight of range after range of mountains greeted them—a sweeping view of new country. Fifteen miles from Prospect Hill , Oregon Trail emigrants as they neared Independence Rock began passing shallow, sometimes dry lakes.
If dry, the lake floors were encrusted with snow-white alkali—essentially baking soda—which the pioneers called saleratus. It worked well for raising bread baked over sagebrush campfires. River crossings were extremely dangerous; operators of commercial ferries and bridges charged steep prices.
Until bridges were built, many people and animals drowned in the swift, deep, shockingly cold water of the Platte. In late June, he carved his name at Register Cliff , but a few days later, he succumbed to cholera.
His grave near present Glenrock, Wyo. Westbound wagon-train emigrants got their first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains when they first saw the blue cone of Laramie Peak , 85 miles away. Their wagons lurching over sharp boulders up a steep grade, westbound emigrants found a particularly difficult stretch of trail about 40 miles east of South Pass.
The late-starting Willie Company of Mormons pulling handcarts suffered terribly here in For many, the end of the journey was a grave. Just beyond the summit of South Pass stand the Oregon Buttes —two flat-topped hills and a smaller, conical one. Iced drinks on the Oregon Trail? But after a decade of trailside chopping and trampling, the spot became less attractive.
Later travelers felt deceived by the stories they had heard. Oregon Trail emigrants along the Sweetwater River came to a place where steep hills forced them to cross the stream three times within two miles—a dangerous option at high water—while a detour through deep sand was safer but slower: just another day on a long journey with hard choices.
Names Hill , a cliff of soft sandstone by the Green River , was a popular stopping place for travelers on the Sublette Cutoff of the Oregon Trail. Many emigrants inscribed or painted their names on the cliff face. But earlier people, too, had left marks on the cliff. On an open, sagebrush plain west of South Pass , emigrants had to decide whether to continue southwest toward Fort Bridger and California or straight west--across 50 waterless miles—toward Fort Hall and Oregon.
Many pioneers parted here, expecting never to see each other again. Pacific Springs , just west of South Pass , offered Oregon Trail emigrants their first good water after crossing the Continental Divide.
From the east-flowing rivers and streams they had followed for so many miles, the pioneers had finally arrived at water that would end up in the Pacific Ocean. Deep, crystal-clear waters with snow-capped views greeted emigrants as they arrived at the final crossing of the Sweetwater River near South Pass. At times, hundreds of travelers waited impatiently for makeshift ferries, hoping to outrun the cholera they feared was being carried toward them by parties farther back along the trail.
Seven pioneer graves survive in Wyoming from , when more emigrants traveled the Oregon Trail than any other year. Near Fort Laramie , Mary Homsley and her baby died from measles, nearly as deadly as cholera at the time.
She is buried under a stone on which her husband scratched her name. The California Gold Rush lured many men away from their families. Whether Oregon Trail emigrants took the westbound Sublette Cutoff at Parting of the Ways or the more southerly route toward Fort Bridger , the next water they had to cross was at Little Sandy Creek , running south through the sandy, sagebrush plains west of the Continental Divide.
State Highway 28 running southwest from Farson continues to parallel the route. Swales are often visible alongside the highway, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left. Among the many branches and variants of the Oregon Trail was the mile Seminoe Cutoff , which allowed travelers to avoid the last four crossings of the Sweetwater River as well as the difficult climb over Rocky Ridge.
Pioneer Sarah Thomas is buried along the route. In , Charlotte Dansie and her family sailed from England with hundreds of other Mormon converts, then gathered with others near Omaha to set out for Salt Lake—all while having a difficult pregnancy with her eighth child.
Her descendants managed to relocate her grave in near Pacific Springs. The Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater offered wagon-train emigrants good water again after 16 dry and dusty miles. Most camped at the crossing. Here, in , members of the Willie Handcart company, most of them Mormon converts from England, were found starving, freezing and dying by rescuers from Salt Lake City.
Months later, his wife and five children at home learned he never made it through. First described in by explorer John C. Fremont, Warm Springs , near present Guernsey, Wyo. Many emigrants stopped here to rest, bathe, wash clothes and carve their names on nearby sandstone bluffs. On July 8, , Charles Bishop , a member of the lavishly equipped Washington City and California Mining Association, died of cholera en route to the California gold fields.
His gravesite, one of just 10 of the trailside forty-niner graves that still exist, lies near Torrington, Wyo. More than 30 members of two Hill families related by marriage traveled in the member wagon train. All told, six of them died before reaching California. William L. Clary , 19, died of cholera in while traveling with 45 other men driving cattle to California. Ralston Baker of the 2nd U. His grave remains near the spot where he fell, south of present Douglas, Wyo.
Oregon Trail emigrants often attached ropes to the back of their wagons and locked the back wheels to slow their descent of steep, rugged Mexican Hill about five and a half miles west of Fort Laramie.
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