primary sources - narratives
I read part of a book called Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager Pringle. I learned about her and her family's emigration from Ohio to Missouri. Many incidents occurred on the long travel, such as injuries and deaths. The head of the household, their father, died from a sickness, and so did their mother soon after, so they had to learn to continue without them even when things seemed hopeless. I found it very interesting that after the father was buried, Indians came and dug up his remains. That shows that this was a very desperate time.
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