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A perilous wagon-train trip west / Bowen, Jerry [133] [WAYITWAS-2002-133]
In my last column we left the wagon train on the banks of the Colorado River, south of today's Bullhead City, Ariz., with 13 wounded and Alpha Brown dead from an Indian attack.
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Cholera plagued wagon trains on trip west / Bowen, Jerry [621] [WAYITWAS-2006-621]
In my last article, we began following the long wagon trip to California in 1849 with James S. Pleasants and his family. They had named the wagon train the Pleasant Hill Wagon Train in honor of the town they had been living near in Missouri.
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Wagon train reaches Pleasants Valley / Bowen, Jerry [627] [WAYITWAS-2006-627]
In my last column, we left James and William Pleasants at Bidwell Bar near Marysville in California.
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Early settlers took golden side trip / Bowen, Jerry [151] [WAYITWAS-2003-151]
In my last column, we left the Barbours and the Alfords in Sonoma, building homes after a rigorous trip across the continent to California. A chance meeting with another Solano County historical figure, Thomas O. Larkin, resulted in a complete change of plans for the two families.
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Wagon trains
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Trains speed Elmira to S.F. trip in 1868 / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [194] [WAYITWAS-2003-194]
This column continues the story of David and Jane Gray Creighton during the 1870s. It is based on the diaries of David Creighton, transcribed by his great-granddaughter Josephine Farmer Albrecht. I'd like to thank her daughter, Kirsten Llamas of Florida, for permission to use diaries, letters and photographs for these columns. Editor.
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Trevails of a desperate wagon train / Bowen, Jerry [131] [WAYITWAS-2002-131]
In the first part of this tale, John Udell and his wife Emily left their Missouri home in 1858 by wagon train for California. They intended to live out their lives with their son Oliver who had settled in Allendale in 1850.
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Wagon train finally reaches gold country / Bowen, Jerry [625] [WAYITWAS-2006-625]
In my last installment of James Pleasants' trek to California, the wagon train members were able to gather scant water for themselves at Rabbit Springs - also known as Rabbit Hole Springs - and began making their way across a portion of the Black Rock Desert.
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Wagon folks hoped for land of plenty / Bowen, Jerry [149] [WAYITWAS-2003-149]
Not all the wagon trains that headed west to California in the 1800s were on a quest for riches found in the gold mines of the Golden State.
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"Speed Wagon," La Rochell, France, year 1918. From a group of photos taken while on a trip from and Metz, France to Liele, Belgium with Fred Jones?
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