Wagons and Horses Still Rule the Trail

Wagons were still the most common mode of travel for pioneers going west in the mid 1800s.  Women were also more involved in the travel journey as 15 year old Eliza Warner notes in her journal:

"I drove four horses nearly all day, saw the most magnificent scenery I ever saw."

After finishing their work for the day, Mary says "we had a good time singing." 

When the weather was good, she and her Aunt Celia (a married lady barely out of her teens) rode
horseback for the sheer fun of it.  With all that open land, riding would have been a thrill with the wind in your hair, fresh air in your lungs.  Can't you imagine it along with Mary and Celia?

Next time - a more older a serious Katherine Dunlap

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Today in Pioneer History: On Mary 29, 1843,  John C. Fremont again departs from St. Louis to explore the West, having only recently returned from his first western expedition.