Try taking a journey by covered wagon across 2000 miles of plains, rivers, and mountains. Try! On the plains, will you slosh through mud and water-filled ruts or will you plod through dust six inches deep? How will you cross the rivers? If you have money you might take a ferry if there is one. Or you could ford the river and hope you and your wagon aren't swallowed alive! What about supplies? Well, if you're low on food you can hunt. You might get a buffalo... you might. And there are bears in the mountains. At the Dalles, you can try navigating the Columbia River, but if running the rapids with a makeshift raft makes you queasy, better take the Barlow Road. If for some reason you don't survive, your wagon burns, or thieves steal your oxen, or you run out of provisions, or you die of cholera-- don't give up! Try again.
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