"travelin' west":
– THE MOST FUN YOU'LL HAVE EXPERIENCING HISTORY
– "We put you in the action"
– you become part of a pioneer wagon companY headed West
Get ready to take a 2,000 mile journey along the Oregon/California Trail- in just one hour!
1. Experience
a simulated pioneer trek along the Oregon Trail |
2. Buy
provisions at a gun shop and merchantile store |
3. Be guided
by our wagon master and live pioneer actors in period costume |
4. Ride in a computer-simulated
covered wagon |
5. Sit
around a campfire within a pioneer wagon encampment |
6. Learn
about Oregon Trail pioneer folkways |
• Do all this
in the comfort of our spacious Trail Center. |
Our wagon
master and pioneer actors will greet you as you embark
on your imaginary journey into the pioneer era of 1842-1869.
“Do
you all have the necessary provisions before we get started?” the
wagon master asks. Instead of modern day cameras and
walking shoes, he’ll want his pioneers to think
with historical focus. For this journey will require
a strong wagon, four to six oxen, two sets of clothes,
a milk cow and chickens, shotgun or rifle, axle grease,
candles, a butter churn. As emigrants traveling the trail
you’ll need such food supplies
as flour, bacon, beans, coffee, hardtack, vinegar, and
yeast powder.
To survive you must take six months’ worth of supplies.
Before your trek you’ll stop at a gun shop and merchantile store to learn what supplies to stock your wagon with. From this unique experience you will learn and feel what it must have been like to be a pioneer emigrant traveling the long and dusty trail to Oregon or California. You'll make life and death decisions regarding your survivability on the trail.
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You’ll
purchase your supplies for your trek west -
here in our merchantile
store re-enactment area |
Our wagonmaster will help you select what to take on your wagon trek West. He'll help you avoid many difficulties and dangers.
Enjoying a song in front of the Merchantile before the journey
You'll see how supplies are loaded into wagons for
you western journey
Our in-door interpretive set of a wagon circle at night will take you back into history as you listen to sounds and stories around a simulated campfire
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