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TITLE:    NEVADA TRILOGY

AUTHOR:   Sandy Kellogg, Churchill Co. Jr. High School,
          Fallon, Nev.

GRADE LEVEL: Junior High - Nevada History or U.S. History
                           westward expansion

OVERVIEW: After watching the video "Gone West." The students
will reminisce with early emigrant parties and make some of
the same decisions they were faced with in travels westward.

PURPOSE: To give students a greater appreciation of what
accomplishments and hardships the early emigrant parties
were faced with and went through.  To give a better
understanding of the geographical region of the Great Basin
while gaining an insight on what a trip like that might have
been like.

OBJECTIVES:  The learner will demonstrate the ability to:
1.   Make decisions that will effect his/her party as they
     cross this country moving west, choosing 1 of 5
     emigrant parties that will be given to them.

2.   Form lists of what provisions will be needed on the
     long trip; food, clothing, ammunition, spare wagon
     parts.

3.   Decide the route to be taken, choose a departure date,
     estimating traveling 15 miles a day determine length of
     time the party will be on the trail.  Take in to
     account the terrain, weather, feed & water for the
     animals.

4.   Draw and label a map showing the route that they intend
     to take from St. Lewis to their arrival in the
     Sacramento Valley.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Pen, pencil, colored pencils, drawing paper, a good
imagination.

   The wagon dimension 4'x 10', load limit 15,000 pounds.
   Mules, sure footed most expensive (cadillac)
   Horses, pull wagon faster (ford or chevy)
   Oxen, slowest, walk along beside wagon (economy what
     most people could afford)  Early wagons had no
     breaks

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