“My family didn’t buy enough food in Independence. We have been eating very small rations since Fort Laramie. Because of that our health is poor. My sister has mountain fever, so we’re stopped here for a while.”
6
“Five dollars to ferry us over the Green River? Those ferrymen’ll make a hundred dollars before breakfast! We’ll keep down river until we find a place to ford our wagon and animals. What little money we have left, we’ll keep!”
1
“When wagons first started coming through here, we did not mind. We even found it good to trade game and fish with the travelers and help them cross the rivers. Now there are too many white men and too little land for grazing.”
