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Get ready for some great fun. You are going to imagine yourself right back in time. Before time traveling you will need to prepare yourself.
For the next two--three weeks (depending on your pace), you will work with a partner of your choice to complete the tasks in The Nation Grows.
Afterwards you will pick a perspective to take on the building of the West in the 1800s. You will have a choice of experiencing this time period as a:
Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
Cowboy on a Cattle Drive
Stagecoach Driver
Pony Express Rider
Railroad Builder
Trapper of Mountain Person
People in each of these groups helped to carve out the paths across the country that others followed. Each had their own reason for coming West. You will be yourself, back in time, experiencing the road West as one of these kinds of people.
You will be famous! So famous that generations later, a great, great, great, great grandchild will find a trunk with a bunch of your things it. This relative will lend your things to the town library for a month. When you bring the trunk to the library, the librarian gets all excited because inside is:
your journal will be in there,
two sketches you made of your life that captures the land and the spirit of the times,
a list of your gear;
a map;
2 songs or poems - a historic one from the 1800s about your kind of life and one you make up;
the broadside that got you interested in traveling West;
an article about an invention that changed your way of life in the West; and
one artifact from your life's work.
Begin your preparations now by choosing a partner and traveling through the tasks on the next two pages.
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