Session 1 - Memories and Marks

Duration:

30 minutes, 42 seconds

Journey with Ranger Clayton Hanson and Brenda Larabee, NeWP TC through the memories of travelers on the trails. Discover how your own memories can become memoirs.

 

If you'd like to read more from the memoirs of young people along the emigrant trails, you can download longer excerpts from:

• Charles Frederick True

• Mary Ellen Todd

If you'd like to read one perspective of what young Indigenous people thought about the travelers crossing their land, read this small part of Sarah Winnemucca's autobiography and memoir:

• Sarah Winnemucca

Each download includes vocabulary to help you and your students through the sometimes difficult language of people in the past.

Writers and classrooms that would like to share their work with the park and festival should e-mail it to Ranger Clayton Hanson.