The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . AT X THE FIRST EMIGRANTS teen miles from the nearest possible camp on theSweetwater, it began to snow, and their last rationof flour was issued. At this moment of despairmessengers reached them, saying a train of supplieswas only two or three days ahead. Encouraged bythis news, the survivors managed to drag forward,but during the night five died of cold and exhaus-tion. The next morning the snow was a foot deep, andthey had left only two barrels of biscuits, a fewpounds of sugar and dried apples
The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . AT X THE FIRST EMIGRANTS teen miles from the nearest possible camp on theSweetwater, it began to snow, and their last rationof flour was issued. At this moment of despairmessengers reached them, saying a train of supplieswas only two or three days ahead. Encouraged bythis news, the survivors managed to drag forward,but during the night five died of cold and exhaus-tion. The next morning the snow was a foot deep, andthey had left only two barrels of biscuits, a fewpounds of sugar and dried apples, with a quarterof a sack of rice. They determined to remain incamp, sending forward the captain and one of theelders in search of the supply train. During thosethree days of waiting the sufferings of the partywere intense. Many sickened and died. Onewriter says: Some expired in the arms of those who were themselvesalmost at the point of death. Mothers wrapped with their dyinghands the remnant of their tattered clothing around the wanforms of their perishing infants. The most pitiful sight of a
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