Westward ho: Young pioneers traverse the Oregon Trail
Hedges Elementary School third-grade students eat seeded grapes as they pull their wagons during a lesson on the Oregon Trail at Dry Bridge Park in Kalispell on Tuesday, Oct. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Under the bright afternoon sun, teams of excited Hedges Elementary School third-grade pioneers pulling covered wagons rounded the last bend before Dry Bridge Park, or, using their imaginations, the Oregon Trail, came into view.
Stepping onto a curb, the black pavement turned into the dusty trail beneath their feet as the third-graders, left behind the modern-day and tuned their imaginations to the 1800s...
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