Wagon Train Narrative

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We have just left Independence today, and our family seems excited to finally be doing something. The doctor is ahead of me in the wagon train so that puts our family in second in our wagon train. Oh no! Only the doctor and me made it through the whole rest of our train got stuck behind us. This is terrible, it looks like there is an endless wagon train crossing this could be a while until the rest of our train makes it through. One hour past by, we were all exhausted already. Everyone was frustrated now, but now that we finally got moving our wagon train started to cheer up.

We got to the crossing of the Kansas River after three hours along the trail. He charged us one dollar a piece to cross on his raft. He tried to separate us into our wagon trains, but only three could go at a time. It took us two hours to cross the Kansas River with our whole train, but we were all glad that we didn't have to go through on our own. …show more content…
Our family has been struggling through with all the blisters on their feet and being exhausted every morning and day. Thankfully there has been no problems with the other people in our train, everyone seems to be cooperating just fine. Now that I think about it we always seem to have a daily routine. First, we wake up, then we start our day, stop for lunch, drive more, stop for the night, and then we put our wagons in a circle so the animals don't escape.

We just woke up and started to get ready for the day. We just started on the trail about an hour ago. All of the people behind us keep complaining about how slow we are. The doctor suggested that we dump something. We were frustrated at the idea, but finally settled on the two-hundred pounds of flour. It made me mad because we wasted all the money on nothing. All in all it was the right decision. No one was complaining and we seemed to be getting to our camp

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