Description Eminence: meaning, Distinction, -renowned, - Importance, - Reputation.
What was it like to oversee a "Bull Outfit" (freighting train) consisting of twenty-five wagons to one-hundred, each pulled by a team of twelve horses or mules, pulling wagons that weighed five thousand pounds loaded? What was it really like to travel at two-miles-per-hour in dust so thick that it could be seen for over twenty miles away? After walking all day and stopping at dusk, erecting the tents, hobbling the riding horses, chaining all the wagon wheels together in the large circular enclosure, starting cooking fires, cooking food for the over one thousand, tending the young and sick, making the beds, cleaning the evening dishes, the men, in groups of ten to fifteen, taking three hour shifts throughout the night standing guard, Every morning getting up before dawn, herding the hundreds of livestock to the closest water and if none close, hand watering them, doing all the same chores.
Excerpt: "I lost my wife and daughter while giving birth but was only afforded one hour to bury them beside the trail as the wagon master could not stop the train for such events".
Women Made America, Stories of the vital roll women played in the development of America and their diaries, cherished today by their owners, entered as written.
By reading the few true diary\'s written, in A Woman\'s Journey West, it may help you understand.
One can only imagine traveling in heavy dust all day or ankle deep mud, crossing a raging river, many had quick sand areas, going down a steep hill getting turned sideways and your wagon rolling, getting caught in an Indian raid, witnessing deaths and having no time to morn them, traveling with wagon trains consisting of over one thousand people and fifteen to twenty miles long, on the westward journey.
Every story is of a person, place or event that, in some way, had an Impact on America.
What makes Men and women Pioneers of yesteryear and today?These are Stories with impact.
Description Eminence: meaning, Distinction, -renowned, - Importance, - Reputation
