Narrative Essay On Alcove Springs

We packed everything we had into U-Haul in the safety the night provided. In about four hours of continuous packing our roots were lifted. We headed due south to a place called High Island, Texas. I had only been there one time before when I was little. The justifications of why we chose High Island, which was six hours from our home, was one of my aunt’s lived there and the distance from home was great.

Those who walked to present-day Oklahoma left mostly between August and November 1838, following a variety of overland routes. As tens of thousands of feet stepped west and wagon train after wagon train followed, the travelers wore down both new paths and old. The Springfield to Fayetteville road segment near Elkhorn Tavern close to Pea Ridge was the supply link between Springfield, Missouri and Fort Smith Arkansas before the Civil War. In 1838, it carried more than mail and goods, as thousands of Cherokee were marched along the road. Today, visitors to Pea Ridge can see part of the path the Cherokee took and learn more about the march west on the park’s auto tour route. Some Cherokee who traveled west on the Trail of Tears returned to fight at Pea Ridge during the Civil War. Other trail locations feature portions of the Memphis to Little Rock Road, along which the Cherokee traveled. Some intact segments are visible today at Village Creek State Park, near Newcastle, Arkansas, or on Henard Cemetery Road, near Zent,

After a few more days we mad it to Dalles and we bought a raft for 25 dollars. Once we made it to the Columbia River we put our raft and wagon in the water the current was super strong but we all got on and we dumped our anvil into the water because it was too heavy. It took a long time to get across but we made it but lost one of our old horses it drowned in the river. We are on the homestretch and went strait for Oregon City. Once we made it we resupplied and bought wood for our new home once we get to Fort Vancouver. Once we were ready we rode on and found a nice spot to settle and built our house and bought land my wife's smallpox disappeared. We then live on at our new

We stop and have two of our tired replaced and also bought a spare tire that costed five dollars. We leave here in two days, we will set out at five in the morning. We have been entertaining ourselves by singing and dancing, the kids have been running around all day and playing together. We have also worked on any repairs we need to do and letting our livestock rest so they will be ready when we leave in two days.

... never really suffered because they were well taken care of as soon as they were ...

We've reached the island crossings and have arrived at the snake river, there was a ferry mann asking for 20 DOLLARS!!! But we decided to walk across do to the low levels of the water, we grabbed the shovels and walked ahead poking where we'll walk. Were across but with a big problem one of the mingo children fell and was washed away they asked us to stay and look for a day. They found him washed up on shore still breathing they brought him a blanket and started a fire for him to dry off. Were off again for fort boise it should take us about a week to arrive there. Weave traveled halfway there and are tiresome. We've arrived at the fort and have already switched out our animals for new ones our new oxen are named zeus and hercules because they are so big and strong and the horse was also trade for a clydesdale without a name, we’ll soon find one for him. We have also gotten new food and a new canvass for our wagon the old one was so tattered it did nothing at all all of this was so expensive we are down to only seven dollars when we had left with eighty. Were off to whitman mission this we have been told this is the hardest to get to because we have to go through the blue

One hour into traveling to Fort Hall and it's already one hundred degrees and there's no shade. My wagon train, the animals, and I are very hot and very thirsty, but we want to save our water till we get to south pass. That happens to be where the middle of the United States is. Hopefully the south pass isn't a steep mountain, we already went up and down a steep hill. When we get over the Rocky Mountains that means we will be half way to Oregon. The Green River will be the next water source and it is forty five miles away. The Green River is too dangerous for the wagon alone so we have to take a ferry across the river. The Shoshone Indians lived by the Green River and assisted us across the river and charged us thirteen dollars.

We went to southwestern Colorado to learn more about the history of the Anasazi Indians. The amalgamation of tribes which lived thousands of years ago in the American Southwest. We had brought along a minimum amount of cash (approximately $150.00 each). Because we were going to spend only one night in a motel and camp during the rest of the trip. We hiked many miles. Covering closes to twenty miles a day. Our entire club began to get tired and irritated on the third day. But the rewards were worth the effort. Although our trek was long and arduous. I will never forget the sight of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in the early morning sunlight on June

I live in a small town that goes by the name of Lafayette. The population is 4,500. Everyone knows where everything is, when everything is, and what everything is. As a child, my mother and I would go to a beautiful waterfall on a small back road when the sun was shining, when the trees and rocks were just right, and when it was damp and perfect for four wheeler rides. The Union Camp waterfall is majestic. The scenery makes a person speechless. We would always go when the weather was perfect. The waterfall is one childhood memory I will always remember. The activities my mother and I would do were always a blast. My trips to Union Camp waterfall are memorable because of the scenery, the weather, and the activities.

Then we wanted to make no stops from here to Yellowstone. Driving along by the mountain near Yellowstone they told us to go around but we did not want to waste 2 hours so we went up the mountain nice and slow. Since the mountain was so steep it burned our tires.

We left Fort Kearny and were following the South side of the Platte River. We reached the California Crossing yesterday and had to cross it using the sandbars people marked being safe enough for us to put our wagon on it. We had to cross it because we needed to follow the North Platte River. It was hard because the river wasn't deep enough and too wide for a ferry, so we had to cross it ourselves trusting what other people said it was safe to go. Fearing that we would make a mistake a mistake we listened to them and we made it across safely without anyone losing their wagons or losing their life's. Once we got a little further, we came to a very steep hill, that we had to go up, there was no way around it. We had the family with the lightest

The first day we just unpacked and got settled in the cabin, Megan and I got bored so we went to go swim in the lake for 30 minutes because their were so many bugs getting us.

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our journey came upon us. The sun had just climbed over the first huge hill and its brilliant

Way behind the house, on the farthest side of my grandma's land sat a small broken structure made of light gray cement blocks, which we named our fort. The whole place reeked of minty sagebrush and dry dirt. We spent most of the long, hot days there pretending we were Indians trying to survive, or a family separated by human civilization. I can remember the constant bee stings that always surprised us. We appeared to be immune to their painful pricks. No matter how much the stings hurt, we always came running back to play.