How Long It Stayed Now It’s Gone

By Dega

The Overland Trail• The Overland trail started at

Atchison, Kansas. • It ended at Fort Bridger, Wyoming. • The trail was 1,100 miles long.

What Cities it Went Through• Kansas • Atchison • Fort Bridger, Wyoming

What They Need To Bring With Them• They would need

Food,Drinks,Clothes,Tents,Blankets,Horses

What Danger Would Come on the Trail• Native Americans• Snakes • Scorpions

Unsafe Trails

• The Dust • Bumpy Trails • Strong winds • Really Bad Weather

James Wild Bill Hickok• He was involved with a shoot of

out and gang of robbers.• He was a robber too.• He drove a stage coach for a living.

Interesting Facts........ • The Overland Trail was made up of parts of other trails already

being used. It was more than 1,100 miles long.• There was about 80 stations between Atchison and fort and

Briger.Some stations were made with sod, chunks of dirt covered with grass. Travelers ate and slept at these stations. The Food was not very good. The rooms where travelers slept tiny and dirty.

• Each mailbag weighed as much as 250 pounds. four to six horses pulled stagecoach.

• The railroads came to the west in 1869 They gave people a faster and safer way to travel. The Overland Trail was no longer used as much. However the importance of the trail was not forgotten.

• Settlers traveled west in search of a better way of life. By the 1850s, many or the trails they used were very unsafe. Native Americans Often Attacked settlers and people who carried mail to places in the west. The native Americans were angry that the settlers were angry taking their land.

Biography• Dean, Arlan . The Overland Trail.

New York City: Power Kids Press, 2003.