![Hedges Elementary School third-grade teacher Melaina Ames, bottom left, speaks to students as they circle their wagons and take a break during a lesson on the Oregon Trail at Dry Bridge Park in Kalispell on Tuesday, Oct. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/10/18/1026_LOC_DIL_Hedges_Oregon_Trail_2_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Hedges Elementary School third-grade teacher Melaina Ames, bottom left, speaks to students as they circle their wagons and take a break during a lesson on the Oregon Trail at Dry Bridge Park in Kalispell on Tuesday, Oct. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
October 18, 2022
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October 30, 2022 midnight
Westward ho: Young pioneers traverse the Oregon Trail
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.