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Title:
| Transportation: Covered Wagons |
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Description:
| These sites explain the different types of covered wagons that were used by pioneers to traverse the Oregon Trail in the late 19th century. Topics include the materials, dimensions, usage, manufacturers, cost, and durability of this primitive mode of transportation. |
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Grade Level:
| 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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Resource Links:
| Prairie Schooners
Learn about "Prairie Schooners," one type of covered wagon that was used on the Oregon Trail. Site includes a diagram of all the different parts of the wagon.
Museum of Westward Expansion: Independence, MO
This site takes a look at Independence, Missouri's, role in the expansion westward and the wagons the pioneers used.
Museum of Westward Expansion: The Overland Wagon
Read a brief description and see a picture of the "Overland Wagon," another wagon that was used on the Oregon Trail. The site also has an audio clip of a women telling her story of what heading west was like.
Studebaker National Museum
Take a virtual tour of the Studebaker National Museum by clicking on the link at the left. The first photograph shows a conestoga wagon. The Studebaker brothers were the largest manufacturers of conestoga wagons in the late 1800s.
Power on the Oregon Trail
Read about which animal is best for pulling a wagon. Includes video of interviews with three historians. Explore this site for links to diaries written by pioneers about their experiences on the trail.
Pioneer Covered Wagon Craft
This site gives instructions for making a covered wagon out of a milk carton. NOTE: Print this page out because the site has many links to advertisements.
Building a Covered Wagon Activity 2
This is a picture of a covered wagon with instructions on how to cut it out and put it together.
Building a Covered Wagon Activity 1
This page gives instructions for making a Prairie Schooner with a milk container, wire, cardboard, and other materials.
eThemes Resource: Trails West
This eTheme includes biographical information about Kit Carson, the Whitman Massacre, Independence Rock in Wyoming, and lives of the emigrants on the Mormon Pioneer Trail.
eThemes Resource: Oregon Trail
These sites have information about the Oregon Trail during the time of Westward expansion. Includes timelines, maps, and photographs. Find out what life was like for children who traveled on the trail. There are links to eThemes Resources on covered wagons, pioneers, other Western trails, and chapter books about the Oregon Trail.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.7, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 6
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