Overview
The two main types of animals used to pull the wagons.
What are oxen and horses?
The party's name that was trapped in the Sierra Mountains.
What is the Donner-Reed party?
This can happen when crossing a river.
What is drowning?
The two main types of landmarks the emigrants would look for
What is a natural landmark and what is a fort?
One of the greatest fears the emigrants had before setting out on the trail.
What is encountering the natives?
What is the prairie schooner?
The missionary who was murdered by the tribe he was trying to reach for Christ.
Who is Marcus Whitman?
The illness that resulted in the highest death toll on the trail.
What is cholera?
The first fort that the emigrants would stop at.
What is Fort Kearney?
The holiday celebrated on the trail.
What is the 4th of July (or Independence Day)?
The Great American Desert.
What is the Great Plains?
The son of two Mormon emigrants to survive the tragic journey to Utah.
Who is Butch Cassidy?
Name two weather related ways that people died.
What is lightning, drowning, freeze to death?
The landmark known as "The Great Desert Register".
What is Independence Rock?
The food that was given to a native that burned his mouth causing him to think he was being poisoned.
What is ginger root?
The name of the city of the main jumping off point.
What is Independence, Missouri?
The man who took four different modes of transportation on the trail over his lifetime.
Who is Ezra Meeks?
This plant is considered the most poisonous plant in North America. It is often mistaken for wild parsnip.
The equivalent of a spa today.
What is Soda Springs?
The largest size of the hailstones that some emigrants dealt with on the trail.
What is a man's fist?
The basic meal eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner on the trail if hunting was unsuccessful.
What is bread, beans, and bacon?
The first trail emigrant to die from an accidental gunshot.
Who is John Shotwell?
The tragic way that Mr. John M. Hurd died.
What is struck by lightning?
The bluff named after a man whose remains were found at the base.
What is Scott's Bluff?
The name of the gang who stole $75,000 worth of gold that was never found.
Who is the Triskett Gang?