WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Directions: After reading the short story “Westward on the Santa Fe Trail” you should have an idea of what it was like during this time to be a settler on the trails going West. Pretend you are a settler during this time and are taking one of the trails. Write a journal entry telling me about your journey. Where are you headed? What are you seeing along the trail? How is the weather? How has your overall experience been while on the trail?

Please write at least two paragraphs (5-8 sentences) in your journal entry. Use the reading “Westward on the Santa Fe Trail” to guide you in your writing.

Explanation:

The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. The trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon. Without the Oregon Trail and the passing of the Oregon Donation Land Act in 1850, which encouraged settlement in the Oregon Territory, American pioneers would have been slower to settle the American West in the 19th century.

i just did something on this guy a few days a go give me two minutes to find it in my notes.