Monday, November 16, 2009

It's 1846. You are heading west, what will you take?

It's 1846. You are heading West for whatever reason.





Your Conestoga Wagon is one of the smaller farm type. It's only about three to four feet wide, about seven to eight feet long, and can carry about twenty-five hundred pounds (about the size of a standard Chevy pick'up).





You have a family of four, mom, dad, and two small kids.





What will you bring?


Food/Water/Cooking Equipment?


Protection from Indians or other westwards (weaponry)? Possessions/Clothes? Tools/Medicine/Blankets? Extra Wheels? A Pig?





Remember to take total weight into consideration. (max 25 hundred pounds.) (not including people)





Best list gets best answer-


and my endless gratitude for the help!

It's 1846. You are heading west, what will you take?
I wouldn't take the wife and kids. I would leave them with family until I could make enough to support them in California.





If I HAVE to take them I would take food, water, soap, sanitary supplies ( you women had it NASTY back then), chickens for the eggs, fishing tackle and a rifle. We don't need the pig we can hunt for game and fish.
Reply:food, water, cooking equip


weapon(s) of some type


tools (minimum, poss to fix a broken spoke)


clothes - you have very little but you must layer


blankets - high value for their weight %26amp; can trade if nec.


-%26gt;forget the pig and take dried meat/ jerky (you don't have to feed it and it's not noisy %26amp; can't run away)


a small mirror (useful for the wife, HIGH trade value)


any high-value small possession such as gold or watch (not everyone has these)


tobacco if you have it - again, trade value





there is no such thing as medicine - not as we know it!


this is why i didn't go West in a covered wagon - never would have made it past the Missouri !
Reply:Mmmmm sounds like homework to me.





Tell us what you have in your list already and we'll agree or add - we won't do it for you.
Reply:maybe a slave or two

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