Evening activities included schooling the children, singing and dancing, and telling stories around the campfire. Some trains insisted on stopping every Sunday, while others reserved only Sunday morning for religious activities and pushed on during the afternoon. Resting on Sundays, in addition to giving the oxen and other animals a needed break, also gave the women of the wagon train a chance to tend to their domestic chores — particularly doing the laundry, as the dust on the Trail pervaded every article of clothing exposed to it.
Marriages and births were always special occasions, and there were a surprising number of both on the Oregon Trail. Weddings were common either at the jumping off spots or, for those romances that bloomed along the Trail, on the Platte River or at Fort Laramie. There is one story of an orphaned baby who was passed from breast to breast to be fed.
Leaving behind keepsakes, heirlooms, or wedding gifts was a painful reality many emigrants had to eventually face. Articles too precious to leave behind in the East were later abandoned along the trail to spare weary oxen. In later years, the Mormons made a cottage industry of salvaging the leeverites and selling them back to emigrants passing through the Salt Lake Valley. This practice, while arguably displaying an enviable entrepreneurial spirit, engendered further ill will between Mormons and Gentiles.
The tiring pace of the journey — fifteen miles a day, almost always on foot — got to many an emigrant. Elizabeth Markham went insane along the Snake River, announcing to her family that she was not proceeding any farther.
Her husband was forced to take the wagons and children and leave her behind, though he later sent their son back to retrieve her. When she returned on her own, her husband was informed that she had clubbed their son to death with a rock. Perils along the way caused many would-be emigrants to turn back.
Weather related dangers included thunderstorms, lethally large hailstones, lightning, tornadoes, and high winds. The intense heat of the deserts caused wood to shrink, and wagon wheels had to be soaked in rivers at night to keep their iron rims from rolling right off during the day. I have the slightly newer version but as you did, I named them for family and Lord of the rings…my favorite feature was the journal. I wrote like a real life in it! Had FAR too much fun teasing my sister about her dying all the time.
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Such diseases as cholera, small pox, flu, measles, mumps, tuberculosis could spread quickly through an entire wagon camp. Cholera was the main scourge of the trail. It could attack a perfectly healthy person after breakfast and he would be in his grave by noon.
However, many would linger in misery for weeks in the bouncy wagons. Burials often were done right in the middle of the trail, where wagons could roll over and animals trample it down in order to erase the scent so wolves could not pick up the scent. A family of seven, killed by Indians, was buried here together in the wagon box from their covered wagon.
He read the two letters from Thurlow and talked about how they helped provide context for prior speculation about what the soldiers at a frontier fort were experiencing, including feelings about desertion and conflicts with the native population. No, I have no such notion to my cranium. I have served most 1 year now. There will not be any trouble with Indians this summer here. Also, the natives would have had little concept of the cost of property damage in the way Thurlow wrote about it, Dunehoo pointed out.
Former Fort Morgan resident Andy Murin was looking on eBay for rare cancelled postmarks to add to his collection.
He saw one from the s from Fort Morgan and knew it was something to let the museum know about, Dunehoo said. But there really was a Col.
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