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#1 Curriculum Software – Top Selling SoftwareUsed In SchoolsProduct InformationExperience the adventure of the Oregon Trail and stake your claim inthe Old West! Survival hinges on the many crucial decisions you’ll make.Oregon Trail 3rd Edition allows you to choose who will travel with youbased on the individuals skills and supplies. Also included are new activities– fishing gathering and first person perspective 3D river crossings. Thechoices you make result in a different outcome each time you play so there’sno end to the fun to be had. But times a wasting. Hit the Trail! The Year is 1848….Perhaps you are a farmer from New England or a teacher from Alabamaor a freed slave from Virginia. No matter what your background you areconsumed with the prospect of an incredible opportunity: the chance tomove West and start a new life.You have heard stories about people who have already traveled the OregonTrail. Young and old rich and poor individuals and families – peoplefrom all walks of life – have been embarking upon this great journey. The reason? Free fertile farmland for anyone brave enough to make thetrip. And now you want to make the journey yourself!It had all started about 50 years before. Over the first half of thenineteenth century the United States acquired most of the land west ofthe Mississippi River from France Great Britain and other countries.(None of these countries acknowledged the rights of the Native Americanswho had occupied the land for countless centuries.) At first only a fewhardy fur trappers and mountain men went West. But then in 1836 a smallgroup of missionaries traveled all the way to present-day Oregon provingthat the trip could be made by entire families. In 1842 a man namedJohn Fremont made a map of the Oregon Trail and emigrants began travelingthe route in large numbers. Over the next six years about 15000people headed West. In 1849 gold was discovered in California and30000 fortune hunters took tofor pc and mac