The Prairie Chieftain, Volume 3, Number 23, Monticello, White County, 16 December 1852 — Page 2

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the roads to be heavy, and consequently ren-

dered our progress slow and toilsome. Our

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first point after leaving civilization was the

Methodist Mission for the education and Christianization of several tribes of Indians among which are the Miamies [sic], Sioux, and

journey from the States until you cross the

Siera [sic] Nevada mountains, there is no water, not as much as can be found on 160 acres of

land in White county. Nothing of impor-

tance occurred until we reached the Little Sandy, a small stream of water, where an

Indian of the Delaware tribe was shot close to our camp, attempting to steal a mule. The Pawnees all along here were troublesome and some little fighting took place between

them and the emigrants, the Indians attempt-

ing to rob. We struck the Platte river below

Fort Kearney 5 miles. This is a rapid, muddy, boiling stream, talking its rise in the

Foxes. It has been established abut a year and has good buildings, and about 100 acres in cultivation. The Prairie for the first 200 miles is beautiful and rich, but like the whole

I Vrdt Csi!tti -earno fans a same Dsn bn eea fheiw eame same Chuuiiey Eiiha CabUot Joseph Banc; Davia JoJm S r.Un.io Job B same Grayaoti William

Ganniion Joseph

Wind river and Rockey [sic] range of mountains

and running an easterly course emptying

into the Missouri river. Its banks are low

came

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R2ont!i, Christmas.

and for hundreds of miles utterly devoid, of

timber, while the bottom is one vast bed of

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tirThia is tha last Week cf t'. D Da- purpoaes, and purchaaed by Unc.e Sam, and Jarvis Leonard

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Trices cf Potk T&ti.

Below w g!rtho latest prk recei

ved fUr Potk in lha lacditiss named: LAFAYETTE, Deo 0, C4,TiGC03.

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pend upon it, the Indians neither caring for,

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a bill of expense on the people for nothing,

affording no protection to the emigration, but

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BUFFALO,

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on the contrary regular swindling posts.

We crossed the Platte 14 miles above the

Fort, supposing the grass to be better, which

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proved to be the case. The crossing occupi-

ed 4 hours, and a quart of good brandy for

4, owing to the width (3 miles) and the sand,

it constantly washing from under our feet.

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W iet we 6 W3 laieai giving we we traveled on the anna Bide untu we anally ole John II

"Osl Creek Do.!!" wKiah camp. n;Tm?ar left it,. C00 rai'.ea from where we first struck same

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diseases caused by the bad water, traveling

in large trains, and unused-to exposure.--

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a li'irill f r.? r-laB. The toad ap the Platte a perfect. level until ntt Pl

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fire:--in fact they are fine to bake Slap Jacks

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on when you get a large one farely [sic] afire.--

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the sun. The Black Hills are the first range

of the Rockey [sic] mountains, and are the first

lift:: jafers oi j tht Paes2c. . The hills in many plaeea present I Hannah Pattersoa

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the appearance of on old brick yard. They

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crumbling and red. <My> opinion about them

is, that <Hell> was located in this region, and

the Devil running out of Brimstone removed

to other quarters! Our road from Fort Lara-

have been burnt until the whole earth is

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being in advance of the principal emigration, had trouble about grass, which was to us

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abundant. We left the. Platte at the junction of the roads or [sic] both sides of the river, at the Mormon Ferry, the Paltte [sic] turning suddenly to the south. From here we struck for the Sweet Water, a branch of the Platte, --a

pleasant stream to travel on, but little grass;

on this stream is what is called the Devil's

Gate, the river having forced its way through a rockey [sic] mountain,--the channel is perhaps

100 feet wide, with walls of solid rock 400

feet perpendicular--a grand sight. The South

Pass of the Rocky mountains is a gentle undulation of land scarcely perceptable [sic] in passing over it, with lofty snow capped mountains to the right and left,--and I will state that you are always in sight of snow from Fort Laramie. I saw snow in a valley east of the Rocky mountains in June, 10 feet deep, with a stream of water running under it. At the South Pass you strike the first

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waters of the Pacific ocean--the first stream is called Pacific creek and springs. 19 miles from here we took the Salt Lake road and traveled over a perfectly desolate country

with no herbage except on any occasional small stream, until we arrived at Fort Bridger, which is a fur post, situated in one of the most healthful valleys in the world,--you

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