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The first time I played this game, we were having so much fun hunting and fishing that we took way to much time and we got snowbound and died on our trip to Oregon City. You will also have to watch your times of year and temperatures. You will come down with illness and you will need to know what medicines to give, there will be injuries that will need to be attended to and you will need to make sure that you stop and rest because even though the goal is to get to your destination, you also need to arrive with all members of you party intact or you lose points. Now traveling the trail is not as easy as it sounds, you will have rivers to ford and meet obstacles along the way. Now I did find one trick to this, buy salt at the beginning of the journey and the meat and fish you catch will be preserved and you will be able to hunt whenever you want. It also teaches conservation when you know that if you hunt and get, say, a deer, a bear and a buffalo that most of that meat will be wasted. My grandsons loved being able to hunt the different animals and learning about how much meat they could reasonably carry. To my amazement on a recent drive and walk up in the Rockies with my 7-8 year old grandsons, they were able to identify and find wild roses and wild raspberry bushes just from the game. I loved learning about the different wild plants that you could gather and eat. Once you are on the trail, you will be able to hunt and fish and gather. You don't want to join too large a wagon train or too small of one.
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The first thing you will do is choose a wagon train to join. Once you have bought your supplies, you will be able to set off on your journey. So stocking up at the beginning of the game will get you far. You need to remember that you will only be hitting outposts that will carry minimal supplies on your journey. Next you go into town and buy the supplies you will need to make your journey.