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We landed in independence, MO. We took a little rest overnight and one of the Indians took our kid Hamilton Weaver. We have not found him yet and I think that they are going to give up hope. He's been gone for 5 weeks and we are already at the Platte River.I can only imagine what he looked like: blonde and brunette hair but mostly brunette about 3”. I didn't know him that well because he usually just stayed in the wagon but most people say that he was really nice and never complained, even when he had an empty stomachs It's very humid after a night at Fort Henry, Platte River is running high we tried to cross the river by floating our wagon across. I cauked my wagon and lost one day of food supplies that we couldn't afford to lose. The leader said that it’s okay and we will try to get some food from Shoshone indians considering that they are very nice. Later that night we found a Shoshone camp, it took awhile for everyone to warm up to each other. Their leader Black Dog was a very good leader we made some exchanges with them because they gave us a lot of food they even let us eat supper with them. We all sat around the campfire telling stories Black Dog's son black bear had very good stories about the other pioneers along the trail, he said that many of them tried to kill them so that they could steal their food and animals, but …show more content…

The mosquitoes around here pretty bad so we all decided to put some medicine on this began by British established in 1834 first located along the snake River service supply along Oregon Trail river. The mosquitoes around here pretty bad so we all decided to put some medicine on ourselves. Some of us did end up getting bitten it was pretty bad we had to stop walking for two hours just so that he could rest for a little bit. I didn't know him that well so I just stood

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