Timless Travels on the Oregon Trail
A Choose-Your-Own Adventure
Tuesday, June 30
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Travel back to 1848 for a timeless pioneer adventure! Based on the legendary 1970s game, this interactive experience puts you in the driver’s seat of a covered wagon.
Be transported back to the year 1848, leading a covered wagon party from Independence, Missouri, to the fertile Willamette River and valley in Oregon. Your leadership skills will be tested as you make choices about supplies, resource management, and your route while overcoming various challenges and setbacks. What button will you end up with?
Find some Oregon Trail, pioneer, & settler books in our catalog.
Find free online Oregon Trail games to play. Check out Internet Archive's collection of retro games.
Did You Know? Oregon Trail was initially created as a text-based game in 1971 and later published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1975.
AGE GROUP: | Teens (Ages 13-18) | Middle Grade (Ages 10-13) |
EVENT TYPE: | Summer Reading Program | Entertainment |
TAGS: | western | retro | Oregon Trail | history | games |
Fertile Public Library
The Fertile Public Library is tucked inside the Duane Knutson Community Center on Mill Street across the street from the Main Street Station & Deli. The Fertile Library is a large one-room library with access to a small meeting room and auditorium that can be reserved through the city office and 24-hour access to WiFi.