Week 8: Exploration in the West

Assignments for today

Play these two games:
The Oregon Trail (1992)–you can play this game in the browser (and you can’t save it)
When Rivers Were Trails (2019)–you’ll have to download this game in order to play it
These two games don’t exactly fit our time period or our topic for today–but in some ways they do. Think about how the military is depicted in each of these games; think about how Native peoples are.

Read:

Inskeep, Steve. Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. New York: Penguin Press, 2020.