The last arrival of emigrants came down the street with about twenty waggons.... What is remarkable, this body, as well as a very large portion of the emigrants were from the extreme western states - N. England send but a small proportion, but they are better furnished than the rest. ...one remarkably pretty little girl was seated on horseback, holding a parasol over her head to keep off the rain ... as I passed their waggons I observed three old men, with their whips in their hands, discussing some point of theology - which is hardly the disposition of the mess of the emigrants."
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A wagon train is a number of horse drawn wagons travelling together for safety.
Wagon trains.
The last wagon train heading west was in the late 1800s during the period of westward expansion in the United States.
The responsibilities of women were to care for the children and keep house.
The Fancher Party.The Fancher Party wagon train killed and has very little survivors. This happened in Sierra Nevada.