In what ways is the short story ""Behold the Brooklyn Bridge"" a work of historical fiction?

Short story "Behold the Brooklyn Bridge" is a work of historical fiction because it uses fictional characters to recreate the historical opening day of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Explanation:

When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened many people turned out to attend the opening day of Brooklyn Bridge. The opening ceremony was also witnessed over by President of United States Chester A. Arthur. It was also attended by New York Governor Grover Cleveland and by the engineer Emily Warren Roebling who contributed to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The story Behold the Brooklyn Bridge" is a piece of historical fiction as there is a sentence from this story that supports this idea. The sentence is: Papa glanced over toward the crowd. "Why that’s President Arthur himself!" he exclaimed.

This sentence depicts the presence of President Arthur. President Arthur.  The President Arthur is represented as a fictional character in this narrative or short story. His visit made this opening ceremony more historic as he was the President of US when this bridge opened. So this historic event was depicted in the short story and the presence of President Arthur in the story depicts that this story "Behold the Brooklyn Bridge" is a work of historical fiction.

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the correct answer is "pioneers carried all of their possessions on long and dangerous trails".

the first wave of pioneers travelled in 1842. they were merely 100 people. the next year that sum climbed to 1000 men, women, and children. these people travelled around 2,000 miles to oregon in the hopes of a better life. although the first part of the trip didn't present many obstacles, as time and miles went by they learnt that threat came from simple things, like becoming ill due to unclean water or bad food.

the weather didn't much, as wagons couldn't protect them from storms. as they travelled through the desert, the intense heat caused wood to shrink. their own lips abscessed and split because of the dry air. the only cure for this was to rub axle grease on their lips.

even crossing rivers was dangerous. sometimes wheels were damaged by unseen rocks on shallow water. mud didn't much either. pioneers were afraid of indian attacks, but there aren't many records of fights between pioneers and native americans. accidents happened because of negligence, exhaustion, guns, and bad weather.

history says that 1 of 10 pioneers who travelled to oregon didn't survive the journey. diseases spread fastly because they didn't have doctors and medical care was ofently improvised. one of the most deadly diseases they came upon was cholera, which became a worldwide pandemia.