“We should’ve taken the Sublette Cutoff! Not enough at this fort worth the time it took to get here. And the outrageous prices! Food’s not fit to eat, much less pay for. Some folks’d sell the clothes off our backs if we’d let them!”
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“This fort was built by Jim Bridger. Jim was a mountain man before he put in this blacksmith shop and small store to supply the overlanders. Does a big trade in horses, Jim and his partner, Vasquez.”
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“One child drowned in a swollen creek east of Fort Laramie. My husband died of typhoid near Independence Rock. Now I travel alone with my five children. The eldest, Caleb, is eleven. I fear he’ll be a man before we reach Oregon.”
