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I read an autobiography of James Addison Bushnell. This autobiography explained how he and his family were moving to Oregon to see if it would help his father heal since the weather would be different. A lot of the same things happened to them as did the other people moving to the west I have researched about. The Bushnell's family had a long hard journey to reach the west. There was a lot of bad weather they had to travel through. Although I have only learned about people traveling on land, this family also traveled by water. They sent their stock and wagons over water to reach to Oregon, and the family ferried while their stock was being "shipped". Also on their journey they had no idea what would happen and how exactly they were going to get to Oregon. They had many surprises along the way like running into some Indians. Also once they reached Oregon they of course mined for gold. While trying to mine they ran into problems with the weather like it snowing and being very cold. Another struggle for them was food. They did not have a lot of food but luckily saved enough to last through the cold winter. So just as other families that I have researched about moving to the west, they all had a long hard journey to reach their destination. I have learned from this article that people also traveled on water by ferry and sent their stock and wagons on a boat to get to one place to another.

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