AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE
Match the sentence halves and write the sentences down:
The explorers who went on the Oregon Trail |
explore the West of America. |
They wanted to |
to pass the Great Missouri Falls. |
The expedition left |
were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. |
Clark made maps and |
were drying fish for the winter. |
The Indian tribe of the Mandan |
pistols from the explorers. |
It took the expedition a month |
they had to kill three of their horses. |
The Shoshones gave the explorers horses |
Lewis studied the countryside and the animals. |
The Indians got knives and |
the expedition reached the West Coast. |
When the men ran out of food, |
from St. Louis, Missouri. |
The Indians on the Columbia River |
took two years, four months and ten days. |
In the middle of November 1805 |
to cross the Rocky Mountains. |
The whole expedition |
helped them to build a fort. |