From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 21:45:53 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>I didn't notice the families even had wagons, which I found odd. What
>happened to the traditional Conestoga?
>
The first episode showed them in connies, and even had an accident in
one right in the first mile, which actually added a bit of realism. The
horses spooked and bolted, they hit a rock and broke the wagon in
half.
>They'd buy barrels of food (at least the bulk staple items like flour,
>oats, etc), not cans.
>
Ja, barrels of light dry food, since they had water where they
were going. No point in using up payload to carry it. Leave
it to a former weights engineer to find that as the biggest glaring
error in the mission.
>>
>>Should we assume that the families just came out from the east on a
>>train?
>>
The train didn't go thru until the following year. That is why
they chose to sim 1883.
With 1883 technology but modern wisdom, I think we could
come up with a plan that would allow us to survive a Montana
winter. It would involve loading the wagon with dried food,
enough to sustain the families while they built a house and cut
enough wood. The sim as they played it was too much of a
mixed metaphor. Still I enjoyed the series. spike
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