“Goodbye Platte River! Goodbye sand hills and white buffalo skulls! Now we climb the Sweetwater valley to cross the Continental Divide at South Pass. Once across the Rockies, we’ll make a steep descent into the Green River valley.”
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“No butter or cheese or fresh fruit since Fort Laramie! Bless me, but I’d rather have my larder full of food back East than have our names carved on that rock! Well, tis a sight more cheery than all the graves we passed.”
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“I carved my name way up the side of Independence Rock, near the top. There are hundreds of names up there! The oldest ones were carved by mountain men and fur trappers -- famous names like Fremont, Bonneville, and DeSmet!”
