Your wagon train has successfully made it to Fort Hall! However, the fort is very crowded and your wagon trains will be unable to stop. If you did not buy axle grease before leaving Missouri, your wagon train has to wait at the fort for the night and hope that it is less crowded tomorrow so that you can trade for some axle grease to keep moving along the trail.
Make a blog post titled Along The Trail and follow the instructions below:
- Now, open up the Google Earth application on your desktop. Once you have opened Google Earth, look at the top of the screen and click on "Add" then scroll down in that window and click "folder." Title your new folder Along The Oregon Trail.
- In the search box, search for each important place along the trail from the list at the bottom of this blog post. Once Google Earth has zoomed in to this place, add a place mark. Look towards the top of the Google Earth screen and click on the yellow thumb tack to add a place mark. Title your place mark the title of the important place. In the description box, write one sentences about what was significant about this place for the Oregon Trail pioneers.
- Your last place mark should be placed at the end of the Oregon Trail in Oregon City . In the description box write two sentences about what the pioneers experienced once they reached Oregon.
- Save your Google Earth .kmz file to your computer desktop.
- Once your Google Earth tour has been completed,
attach the Google Earth .kmz file that you saved on your computer desktop to an e-mail. The subject of your e-mail should be Google Earth. E-mail the file to AshErJen@gmail.com.
Important Places:
- Independence, Missouri (start of the trail)
- Fort Kearny in Nebraska
- Fort Laramie in Wyoming
- Fort Bridger in Wyoming
- Fort Hall in Idaho
- Fort Boise in Idaho
- Whitman's Mission in Washington
- Oregon City, Oregon (end of the trail)