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take a dram. Neither his liquor nor his message was
very palatable. The Captain had returned to give us no-
tice that R-----, who assumed the direction of his party
had determined upon another route from that agreed upon
between us; and instead of taking the course of the traders,
had resolved to pass northward by Fort Leavenworth, and
follow the path marked out by the dragoons in their ex-
pedition of last summer. To adopt such a plan without
consulting us, we looked upon as a high-handed pro-
ceeding; but suppressing our dissatisfaction as well as
we could, we made up our minds to join them at Fort
Leavenworth, where they were to wait for us.

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Accordingly, our preparation being now complete, we
attempted one fine morning to begin our journey. The
first step was an unfortunate one. No sooner were our
animals put in harness than the shaft-mule reared and
plunged, burst ropes and straps, and nearly flung the cart
into the Missouri. Finding her wholly uncontrollable, we
exchanged her for another, with which we were furnished
by our friend Mr. Boone, of Westport, a grandson of
Daniel Boone, the pioneer. This foretaste of prairie ex-
perience was very soon followed by another. Westport was
scarcely out of sight when we encountered a deep muddy
gully, of a species that afterward became but too familiar
to us, and here for the space of an hour or more the cart
stuck fast.

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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: 9.
    
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