Fate Scenarios: Fate #1 Mile 0.0 May 1 Your pack horses are rubbed down and ready and your oxen team in place. Your belongings are packed. Your food rations carefully secured. Many of the parties in your wagon train are already lined up and ready to move out. But you still have to get one more vital item: your drinking water! Will you top off your kegs from the drinking water available here at Independence Camp? Or wait until you get to the next stop this evening? (After you reach your decision, read the fate.) Fate: If you decided to top off your kegs this is your fate: Moments after topping off your water kegs you notice a mud splashed sign: "Contaminated Water! Cholera!" Now you must dump your supply and travel until evening before refilling your keg. Will any families share their supply? Fate #2 Mile 561 June 30 Since there are no trees anywhere, you've noticed this massive landmark has been looming off on the horizon like some forgotten castle for several successive days. And now you've finally reached it. This sandstone landmark is beautiful to look at. But it doesn't have any trees either... Remember?. And, you're out of firewood. What will you do?Ever hear of buffalo chips? (After you reach your decisions, read the fate.) Fate: Buffalo chips are the drying dropping of (you guessed it!) buffaloes. Everyone (and that includes you) has to carry a burlap sack with them on the trail and gather as much of this as they can. When it burns it smells like dried grass and makes excellent hot fuel for cooking. But it burns fast. So, gather a lot!!!! Fate #3 Mile 575 July 1 Everybody who's passed this massive 300-foot, outcropping writes about it. And most of you write ON it. Which makes Chimney Rock the most popular canvas for emigrant graffiti along the Oregon Trail. Climb up and leave your name for kids in the next century to read. Then check the messages left at the bottom of the rock to see if
Fate Scenarios: Fate #1 Mile 0.0 May 1 Your pack horses are rubbed down and ready and your oxen team in place. Your belongings are packed. Your food rations carefully secured. Many of the parties in your wagon train are already lined up and ready to move out. But you still have to get one more vital item: your drinking water! Will you top off your kegs from the drinking water available here at Independence Camp? Or wait until you get to the next stop this evening? (After you reach your decision, read the fate.) Fate: If you decided to top off your kegs this is your fate: Moments after topping off your water kegs you notice a mud splashed sign: "Contaminated Water! Cholera!" Now you must dump your supply and travel until evening before refilling your keg. Will any families share their supply? Fate #2 Mile 561 June 30 Since there are no trees anywhere, you've noticed this massive landmark has been looming off on the horizon like some forgotten castle for several successive days. And now you've finally reached it. This sandstone landmark is beautiful to look at. But it doesn't have any trees either... Remember?. And, you're out of firewood. What will you do?Ever hear of buffalo chips? (After you reach your decisions, read the fate.) Fate: Buffalo chips are the drying dropping of (you guessed it!) buffaloes. Everyone (and that includes you) has to carry a burlap sack with them on the trail and gather as much of this as they can. When it burns it smells like dried grass and makes excellent hot fuel for cooking. But it burns fast. So, gather a lot!!!! Fate #3 Mile 575 July 1 Everybody who's passed this massive 300-foot, outcropping writes about it. And most of you write ON it. Which makes Chimney Rock the most popular canvas for emigrant graffiti along the Oregon Trail. Climb up and leave your name for kids in the next century to read. Then check the messages left at the bottom of the rock to see if
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