Days on the Road

About this eBook

Author

Herndon, Sarah Raymond, 1840-1914

Title

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Credits

Produced by WebRover, MFR, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Overland journeys to the Pacific

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62610

Release Date

July 11, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DAYS ON THE ROAD
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.REMINISCENCES OF THE PLAINS
4. 4.PRESS NOTICES.
5. 5.DAYS ON THE ROAD — WE START. — OUR FIRST CAMP. — THROUGH MEMPHIS. — I MEET AN ACQUAINTANCE. — AN ADDITION TO OUR PARTY. — BLOOMFIELD, IOWA. — BEAUTIFUL APPLES. — MISS MILBURN’S LOVE STORY. — A LETTER TO BROTHER MAC. — THE ICARIAN COMMUNITY. — A SWING AMONG THE TREES. — A FATAL ACCIDENT. — BEREAVEMENT. — A FUNERAL. — ON THE BANKS OF THE BIG MUDDY. — OUR LAST DAY WITH MISS MILBURN. — WE HAVE OUR PICTURES TAKEN. — A YANKEE HOMESTEAD. — WE MEET A FRIEND. — ON THE BANKS OF THE PLATTE. — THE ORDER OF OUR GOING. — FORT KEARNEY. — ELEVEN GRAVES. — A NARROW ESCAPE. — BEAUX. — WE DECIDE TO GO TO MONTANA. — PRAIRIE DOGS. — PREACHING SERVICES. — MUSIC IN CAMP. — THE MOUNTAINS IN SIGHT. — A TOWN OF TENTS AND WAGONS. — WE WORSHIP IN THE WILDERNESS. — WE CELEBRATE THE FOURTH. — THE BLACK HILLS. — WE VISIT A BEAUTIFUL SPRING. — WE CUT OUR NAMES IN STONE. — LARAMIE PLAINS. — IN THE RAIN. — INDIANS. — WE CLIMB ELK MOUNTAIN. — WE CROSS THE NORTH PLATTE. — NEELIE IS SICK. — THE SUMMIT OE THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. — SIM BUFORD SICK. — OUR TRAIN DIVIDED. — WE OVERTAKE THE CALIFORNIA TRAIN. — ON BITTER CREEK. — DELAYED ANOTHER DAY. — A FATAL SHOOTING. — TRIED FOR MURDER. — WE LEAVE THE TRAIN. — WILD CURRANTS GALORE. — MR. CURRY’S HORSE STOLEN. — ANXIOUSLY WAITING AT HAM’S FORK. — THE WANDERERS’ RETURN. — SIM’S STORY OF THEIR WANDERINGS. — BEAR RIVER MOUNTAIN. — WE MEET CAPTAIN HARDINBROOKE’S BROTHER. — MORMON TOWNS IN IDAHO. — WE MEET MEN RETURNING TO THE STATES. — MOTHER AND I SAVE JOE’S LIFE. — DICK IS SOLD. OH, DEAR. — MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY. — SWEET WATER CAÑON. — THE END OF OUR JOURNEY.
6. 6.Transcriber’s Notes

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