"Everyone is busy preparing fires of buffalo chips to cook the evening meal, pitching tents and otherwise preparing for the night. All able to bear arms in the party have been formed into three companies and each of these into four watches. Every third night it is the duty of one of these companies to keep watch and ward over the camp. It is not yet eight o'clock when the first watch is to be set.
The evening meal is just over, and the corral now free from the intrusion of the cattle or horses, and groups of children are scattered over it. Before a tent near the river a violin makes lively music, and some youths and maidens have improvised a dance upon the green.
It has been a prosperous day, more than 20 miles have been accomplished of the great journey. The encampment is a good one. But time passes. The violin is silent and the dancers have dispersed. Enamored youth have whispered a tender good night in the ears of blushing maidens, or stolen a kiss from the lips of some future bride - for cupid here as elsewhere have been busy bringing hearts together."
Sadly, that is the end of Jesse's story. Don't you wish we could follow them to the end of their journey?
Next time...The Trail of Hardships
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Today in Pioneer History: "On February 17, 1820, The Senate passes the Missouri Compromise, an attempt to deal with the dangerously divisive issue of extending slavery into the western territories.
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