.OTAy.NTY4Mzc

14.

As it is not likely that any people will ever again cross the plains with a wagon train and as but few are living who ever experienced that mode of travel I may be pardoned for mentioning minor incidents and chronicling details of our experiences which would be omitted were not those days forever gone and already nearly forgotten. We were generally up with the dawn and, breakfast soon over, the advance moved out upon the road followed by the trains which steadily unwound? from its corrals. If the conditions were favorable we halted for an hour or more in the middle of the march for the day unsaddled and grazed the horses while we had a light lunch of a biscuit, bits of bacon and half an onion. Of all vegetables the potato and onion are the most essential on the march. We generally reached camp from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon and had our dinner toward 6 o'clock. Where antelope abounded on the plains