The 1855 Survival Game

Would you have survived at the time of our first keepers?
(one point each and we won't tell anyone!)

NO CHEATING! NO ELECTRONICS IN 1855

1) always grown your own fruit and vegetables
2) made your own musical instrument(s)
3) driven a horse drawn carriage or wagon
4) saddled a horse
5) used a communal outhouse (digging your own hole does not count)
6) gathered wild mushrooms for consumption (not to get high)
7) used a cast iron wood burning stove for cooking and baking
8) used and maintained a kerosene lantern for light
9) made and eaten beef, horse or deer jerky (or pemmican)
10) walked or rode a horse more than 500 miles without a map
11) had major surgery without pain killers
12) sutured a wound with available needle and thread
13) used a cap and ball black powder pistol/rifle to survive
14) used black powder to cauterize a wound or amputation
15) joined a posse to hunt down a murderer or thief
16) made sourdough bread without buying starter
17) drank water from a stream or lake unfiltered
18) killed, dressed and cooked your own meat
19) made your own camera and light sensitive materials
20) spun yarn and wove your own cloth
21) made your clothes by hand from the above
22) washed your clothes in a tub with homemade soap
23) been with someone when they died
24) lost someone you knew to violence committed by a stranger
25) made your own bricks to build a house with
26) felled a tree to make furniture or housing using only hand tools
27) ever sent or received a telegram
28) ever used whale oil for lubrication or lamp fuel
29) never been in a motorized car
30) never used a phone of any kind
31) can read and write in full handwritten cursive script
32) kept accounts in a ledger book by hand
33) had Cholera, Typhus, Yellow Fever, or Tuberculosis
34) cast lead characters to hand set a block of text to print
35) depended on a hand wound pocket watch to tell time
36) made a dip pen from a twig and used hand made ink

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0-12 Stick to this century PLEASE 13-24 Just might have survived in the 20th century 25-36 Might survive in the 19th century, w/ help . . .

We complain that others don't know how to do anything from our time period. This could be said of all of us if we went back to 19th century California.

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