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Overland Journal: Food on the Oregon Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
A well-researched and very readable essay discussing the food supplies pioneers carried with them on their journeys across the frontier to the West.
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Food Timeline: Westward Ho! Wagon Train Cookery

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a realistic view of how pioneers in wagon trains kept, stored, and cooked food on their months-long journeys out west. Learn what kinds of food they took and how much it cost them.