. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. we wereenabled to make the pas- WILLIAM S. GOOD.(FROM A DAGlERREOTVPE, 1S52.). WILLIAM L. BARL.(FKOM AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH.) 8 DRIVING DULL CARE AWAY. sage, it was on board a rickety scow propelled b} ahorse treadmill, the distance between the landings onthe opposite sides being seven miles. The currentwas against us at that, but a tortuous slough througha timbered bottom very much facilitated our to the difficulties of travel, were the inconven-iences suffered from the scantiness of accommodationsfor
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. we wereenabled to make the pas- WILLIAM S. GOOD.(FROM A DAGlERREOTVPE, 1S52.). WILLIAM L. BARL.(FKOM AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH.) 8 DRIVING DULL CARE AWAY. sage, it was on board a rickety scow propelled b} ahorse treadmill, the distance between the landings onthe opposite sides being seven miles. The currentwas against us at that, but a tortuous slough througha timbered bottom very much facilitated our to the difficulties of travel, were the inconven-iences suffered from the scantiness of accommodationsfor ourselves and animals incident to the newness andsparseness of the settlements. More than once wecould obtain no accommodations at all. I rememberthat on one such occasion in Missouri, when aftertrudging all day long through the mud, night over-took us in the middle of a wide prairie. We had noalternative but to chain our oxen to the wheels of ourwagons, make our couches beneath the wagon coversas best we could, having no fire and no food for manor beast. As I lay upon that rude pallet reflecting onthe situation, the winds meantime keeping up an om-inous
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