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Moving West
10 Do you think you could walk all day, every day, for weeks and weeks? That’s
exactly what kids who walked west with their parents had to do. Depending
on where people started and how far west they went, the entire journey
could be a few hundred miles or as long as 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers). It
could take five months to get to their new home. No wonder they often
went through many pairs of shoes!
11 Newspaper advertisements made the West sound amazing. They
encouraged many people in the eastern United States to move. Often these
reports did not give a complete picture of the daily hardships of western life.
hardships Hardships are difficulties or suffering caused by not having enough of something.
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