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of an emigrant party, encamped a mile in advance of us.
About twenty wagons, he said, were with him; the rest of
his party were on the other side of the Big Blue, waiting
for a woman who was in the pains of childbirth, and quar-
relling meanwhile among themselves.

3

These were the first emigrants that we had overtaken, al-
1though we had found abundant and melancholy traces of their


rogress throughout the
course of the journey.
Sometimes we passed
the grave of one who
had sickened and died
on the way. The earth
was usually torn up, and
covered thickly with
wolf-tracks. Some had
escaped this violation.
One morning, a piece of plank, standing upright on the
summit of a grassy hill, attracted our notice, and riding
up to it, we found the following words very roughly traced
upon it, apparently with a red-hot iron:--

MARY ELLIS.
DIED MAY 7TH, 1845.
AGED TWO MONTHS.

Such tokens were of common occurrence.

4

We were late in breaking up our camp on the following
morning, and scarcely had we ridden a mile when we saw,
far in advance of us, drawn against the horizon, a line of
objects stretching at regular intervals along the level edge
of the prairie. An intervening swell soon hid them from
sight, until, ascending it a quarter of an hour after, we saw
close before us the emigrant caravan, with its heavy white

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. Contributors: Francis Parkman - author, Frederic Remington - illustrator. Publisher: Little Brown. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1892. Page Number: 56.
    
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