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The Oregon trail
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At the time he went to California by the Oregon trail, there were no rail roads west of Illinois, and the wagon roads were mostly trails, and farther west the trails were hardly broken trails, as not many had ever went that way even by wagon or schooners He was captured by Indians and kept prisinor for a short time, but never harmed, he became sick, as many did, and many died, and was left dieing by the campfire to die, one morning by his brother in law Maxwell and another man, the only others of his party, when they drove away, leaving him his gun an oxen and bag of cornmeal and some salt, he said for a week unable to get around without food or water, then was able to crawl about one hundred yards to a river where he got water and found some dead fish which lie on the shore which he ate.
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