Word List Oregon Trail 126 words

Oregon Trail Vocabulary Word List (126)

• A

  accidents, adults, adventure, aspiration, attack, attract

• B

  belongings, branch off, bravery, break, buffalo

• C

  century, children, cholera, chores, clothing, contamination, continent, courage, covered wagon, crossing

• D

  daily, dangerous, desert, destinations, dirt, disease, drama, dream, dust, dysentery

• E

  emigration, endurance, eventful, expansion, experience, explore

• F

  family, fear, fighting, fire, floods, food, footsteps, Fort Kearny, Fort Laramie, forts, fright, fur trader

• G

  gold, graves, guide, gun, gunshot

• H

  hardship, heat, historian, history, horseback, horses

• I

  Independence, Indians, information, interpret

• J

  job, journey

• K

  kids, killing

• L

  lesson, life, location

• M

  map, massacre, memorable, migration, miles, mountains

• N

• O

  on foot, overland, oxen

• P

  path, perish, pioneer, Platt River, prairie, promises

• Q

• R

  railroad, reach, river, ruts

• S

  scarcity, search, separation, settler, severe, sick, sign, simplicity, southwest, strength, survey, survival

• T

  temperature, test, thousands, time, toil, trading, trail, transcontinental, travel, trial, tribulations

• U

• V

  vista

• W

  wagon, walking, wash, washtub, water, way, west, westward, wheel, wood

• X

• Y

  youth

• Z