Pioneer Travel Vocabulary
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1 | a wagon that is pulled by oxen or horse that has a canvas top. These wagons were used to carry a family and their belongings. | 4 | a group of covered wagons traveling together. | 5 | an area of land that is naturally untouched and wild. | 6 | a flat boat that was used as a raft to help wagons cross large and deep rivers. | 7 | prairie town that grows quickly. | 9 | someone who travels far to move from one area to another in order to find a new place to live and only bringing what they could in one trip. | 10 | to mark trees in the wilderness to help pioneers with the direction of a particular trail. | 11 | when the oxen pulled a covered wagon across a small river or stream that is not deep. |
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2 | a long and narrow piece of wood that connected the oxen to the wagon. | 3 | an opening through a mountain range that is easier for a wagon to travel through. | 8 | a wooden frame that fits around the necks of two oxen. The yoke would be used to help attach the oxen to the wagon tongue. | 9 | flat grassland, with very few trees, in Midwestern America |
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