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Wild West - Coggle Diagram

- - - - carpenter
      - banker
      - farmer
      - wagon trains
        
        safer to travel
        
        experters to help people
        
        Captain was usually the elder or owning the most wagon
        
        scout, usually a mountainman
      - doctors / nurses
      - teachers
      - lawmen / soldiers
      - chef / baker
    - - Oxen: 3 yokes
        Food: 2000 pound (lb)
        Clothes: 11 sets
        Ammunition: 15 boxes
        Spare Parts: 3 wheels, 3 axles, 3 tongues
      - Oxen: 4 yokes
        Food: 2000 pounds (lb)
        Clothes: 15 sets
        Ammunition: 20 boxes
        Spare Parts: 3 wheels, 1 axles, 1 tongues
      - Oxen: 6 yokes
        Food: 1000 pounds (lb)
        Clothes: 10 sets
        Ammunition: 3 boxes
        Spare Parts: 3 wheels, 3 axles, 3 tongues
      - Oxen: ?
        Food: 2000 pounds (lb)
        Clothes: 8 sets
        Ammunition: 100 boxes
        Spare Parts: ?
      - oxen can pull 2000 pounds
      - Food
        
        bacon
        
        coffee
        
        rice
        
        flour
        
        ham
        
        dried fruit
        
        cow milk
        
        hunt wild games
        
        antelope
        
        rabbits
        
        birds
      - Clothes
        
        shoes
        
        blankets
      - Average of $500-1000
    - - Independence, Missouri
      - Fort Laramie
      - Chimney Rock
      - Fort Kearney
      - Independence Rock
      - Fort Hall
      - trading posts
      - Destination: Oregon City
        
        2000 miles
        
        took 5 months
    - - 1848 May
      - 1848 July
    - - NO FOOD!
      - Got measles
      - snake bites
      - NO Money
      - thief
      - broken leg
      - death
        
        cholera
      - fever
        
        smallpox
        
        mumps
      - wagon broke down
      - ran out of supplies
      - no trading
      - brought too many things
        
        people left things behind
      - crossing river
        
        ferry
        
        ford the river: wade the water
        
        Caulk: turn the wagon into a boat
      - encounter with the Native Americans
      - Finding fresh water