Narrative Essay On Missouri Life

Have you ever woke up and wondered what you should do in your life to make yourself and your family happy. My family wasn't happy about having to live in missouri at the time. One Morning my wife jessica had the idea that we should go to oregon to have a fresh start to to escape from all the problems in missouri. When my 16 year old daughter patty and my 18 year old son James woke up that morning we talked about moving up west. To my surprise they both really wanted to move to oregon and couldn't wait to leave. The next day we packed up enough food to feed ourselves for 8 months and we bought the biggest wagon at the time to haul all of our supplies. We then bought 4 oxen to pull the wagon and a couple of cows. My wife thought we should bring feed for the animals incase there is no spot for the animals to graze. Through everything we had water was what took up most of the space in the wagon. The last thing we packed was supplies to start our own farm when we reach Oregon. …show more content…
The trip took 6 month and was a hard treacherous journey. Some people in our group died from the cold and some got sick and died. We crossed many rivers were some wagons got carried away because of how fast the current was. When we finally arrived we lost 15 of the original 44 wagons that we started out with. We had enough food left over to eat until our farm was producing enough food for us to eat. We traded in our alcohol for cows, chickens and pigs so we can breed them for meat, eggs and milk. Once we got setup with our house, farm and our barn we lived happily ever after