item: #1 of 26
          id: 11146
      author: Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner
       title: The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
        date: None
       words: 96531
      flesch: 73
     summary: The following morning they had proceeded to within three miles of the summit; but finding snow there five feet in depth, the trail obliterated, and no place for making camp, they were obliged to return to the spot they had left early in the day. Most of the white men connected with the fort had taken Indian wives and many little children played around their doors.
    keywords: account; advance; affection; afraid; afternoon; age; alcalde; american; animals; answer; anxious; april; apron; arms; arrival; assistance; attention; aunt; away; baby; bad; bank; baptiste; basket; bay; bear; beautiful; bed; beef; believe; best; big; billy; black; blood; blue; board; bodies; body; boggs; book; boys; branches; bread; breakfast; breen; bright; broken; brother; brunner; bryant; buffalo; bundle; busy; bye; cabins; cady; california; camp; captain; care; catherine; cattle; chance; chapter; charge; children; church; circumstances; city; clark; close; clothes; clothing; coast; cold; colonel; comfort; coming; companions; company; condition; contents; convent; cook; corner; country; courage; cover; cows; creek; cross; crossing; cry; cup; cut; danger; daniel; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; deer; departure; desert; deserted; diary; die; different; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; dollars; donner; donner camp; donner party; door; dress; dressed; drive; dry; eager; earlier; early; earnest; eddy; effort; elitha; eliza; elizabeth; emigrants; english; evening; excited; excitement; expected; eyes; face; fact; fallon; false; families; family; far; fast; fate; father; fear; february; feeling; feet; fine; fire; flesh; floor; flowers; following; food; foot; footnote; forlorn; fort; forward; foster; fourth; frances; francisco; friendly; friends; frémont; fuel; furnished; future; general; george; georgia; german; girls; glad; god; gold; good; government; governor; grandma; grass; graves; great; greenwood; ground; grown; guide; hair; half; hall; hand; handed; happiness; happy; hard; harm; hastings; head; health; heart; heavy; help; helpless; high; hiram; history; hold; home; hope; horseback; horses; hotel; houghton; hours; house; human; hungry; hurried; husband; illinois; illustration; independence; indians; information; interest; jacob; jakie; james; john; johnson; jose; joseph; journal; journey; judge; july; june; keeping; keseberg; kind; kindly; known; ladies; lake; land; language; laramie; large; later; law; lead; leanna; leave; left; letter; lewis; life; like; line; lips; little; little children; live; living; long; longer; look; looking; loose; lost; love; making; man; march; marked; mary; mccutchen; mcglashan; meal; means; meat; meeting; members; men; messrs; mexican; middle; miles; milk; miller; mind; miss; mission; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mountains; mrs; murphy; native; near; necessary; neck; need; new; news; night; north; number; o'clock; oak; old; ones; open; order; oregon; oxen; pacific; pack; paper; parents; parties; parting; party; pass; past; patrick; pay; people; personal; persons; picture; piece; pike; pioneer; place; plain; pleased; poor; post; power; preparations; prepared; pretty; previous; promise; property; provisions; public; purpose; questions; ranch; range; reach; reaching; ready; reed; refugees; relief; relief party; report; rescuers; rest; resting; return; rhodes; river; road; room; route; russell; sacramento; saddle; salt; san; save; saw; scene; school; season; seat; second; section; self; service; settlement; shoes; shop; short; shoulder; sick; sierras; silk; simon; sinclair; sister; sleep; small; snow; snyder; sonoma; sorry; sound; spanish; speak; spirit; spot; spring; standing; stanton; start; starved; starving; statement; states; stay; stein; steps; stock; stone; storm; strange; strangers; street; strength; strong; sufferers; suffering; sugar; summit; sun; sunshine; supplies; supply; survivors; sutter; sympathy; table; talk; talking; tall; teams; tell; tent; thee; things; thornton; thou; thought; time; town; trail; travel; tree; trouble; trunk; truth; trying; tucker; uncle; united; vallejo; valley; visit; voice; wagons; waiting; walk; wall; war; warm; watching; way; weak; weather; weeks; welcome; west; white; wide; widow; wife; wild; william; willing; wind; winter; wish; wolfinger; women; wood; woodworth; words; work; yard; years; young
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        item: #2 of 26
          id: 12236
      author: Manly, William Lewis
       title: Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name
        date: None
       words: 167640
      flesch: 78
     summary: Here we found a gravelly creek with but little water, but as soon as we passed this point we saw the valley suddenly widening out, and beautiful groves of live oak trees scattered all around. As we came to the lowest part of the valley there seemed to be little faint water ways running around little clouds of stunted shrubs, but there was no signs that very much water ever run in them.
    keywords: able; account; advance; afraid; afternoon; american; angeles; animals; answer; anxious; appearance; arcane; arms; assistance; attempt; attention; author; backs; bacon; bad; band; bank; bare; barren; base; basin; beans; bear; beautiful; bed; beef; bennett; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; blankets; blood; board; boat; bodies; body; bore; box; boys; brave; bread; breakfast; brier; brigham; bright; broken; brook; brush; buffalo; building; bunch; bunches; burden; burning; bushes; business; bye; cabin; california; camp; camped; camping; canoe; canteens; captain; care; case; cattle; cañon; center; cents; certain; chance; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; circumstances; city; claim; clear; climate; close; clothes; clothing; cloud; coast; cold; comfort; comfortable; companion; company; condition; considerable; cook; cooked; cool; corn; country; courage; course; cow; creek; cross; crossing; crowd; crump; current; cut; dallas; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; deer; desert; desire; desolate; determined; different; difficult; direction; dirt; distance; divide; doctor; dog; dollars; door; doty; doubt; dressed; drink; drop; drove; dry; dust; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; eating; edge; elk; end; english; escape; evening; experience; extended; eyes; face; fact; fair; faithful; fall; fallen; families; family; far; farm; farther; fast; fat; fear; feeling; feet; fellows; fertile; fever; field; find; finding; fine; fire; fish; flat; flour; folks; following; food; foot; fort; forward; francisco; french; fresh; friendly; friends; gambling; game; general; gentle; glad; god; gold; good; good water; government; grade; grand; grass; great; green; ground; grub; guide; gun; guns; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hats; head; health; heart; heavy; helms; help; henry; herd; hide; high; higher; hills; history; hold; hole; holman; home; honest; hope; horses; hour; house; human; hungry; hunt; hunting; idea; inches; inclined; indians; intended; j.w; jayhawkers; jerk; john; jose; journey; keeping; kettle; kind; knife; knowing; known; ladies; lady; lake; land; language; large; late; law; lead; left; level; life; like; likely; line; little; little mule; little time; little water; little way; live; living; load; log; logs; long; long time; long way; longer; looking; loose; lost; low; lower; luck; making; man; map; march; material; matter; mcmahon; meal; meat; meeting; memory; men; michigan; middle; miles; mill; minds; mineral; miners; mining; mission; missouri; moccasins; moment; money; month; moody; moore; mormon; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; mud; muddy; mule; narrow; native; near; nearer; necessary; neck; need; nevada; new; news; nice; night; noon; north; number; o'clock; oak; occasion; old; ones; open; opinion; order; orleans; outfit; outside; oxen; pacific; pack; panama; parties; party; pass; passage; passengers; passing; past; pay; peak; people; perpendicular; piece; pile; pine; pioneers; place; plain; platte; pleasant; pleased; plenty; pocket; point; poles; pony; poor; portion; position; possible; prairie; prepared; present; pretty; price; progress; property; prospect; provisions; purpose; question; rain; range; rate; ravine; raw; reach; ready; real; red; region; regular; related; relief; reported; rest; rested; return; rich; ride; rifle; rise; river; road; rocks; rogers; rolling; room; rope; rough; route; run; running; sacramento; sad; saddle; safe; sage; sailors; saloon; salt; san; sand; santa; satisfied; saw; scarce; scattered; scattering; sea; search; season; seat; second; secured; set; shape; sharp; ship; shore; shot; sick; sides; signs; single; situation; skin; slope; slow; small; smaller; smith; smoke; smooth; snow; soft; soil; solid; sort; sound; soup; south; southern; spanish; spot; spread; spring; square; staid; standing; start; starvation; starving; state; stay; steamer; steep; steps; stock; stockton; stone; story; straight; strange; stream; streets; strength; strong; style; successful; sudden; suffering; summer; summit; sun; supper; supply; sure; surface; surprise; sweet; talk; teams; telling; tender; tent; terrible; things; think; thinking; thirst; thought; timber; time; tired; tom; town; tracks; trail; traps; travel; travelers; trees; trip; trouble; true; turn; uncle; usual; valley; view; village; wagons; walk; walker; walking; wall; want; warm; watch; water; water hole; way; ways; weak; weather; weeks; west; western; westward; wet; wheat; white; wide; wife; wild; williams; willows; wind; winter; wisconsin; wives; wolf; women; wonderful; wood; words; work; working; world; worn; worse; yards; years; yellow; yoke; young
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        item: #3 of 26
          id: 13002
      author: Bryant, Edwin
       title: What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map
        date: None
       words: 73221
      flesch: 66
     summary: The plain is watered by several _arroyos_, skirted with timber, generally the evergreen oak. an ounce, our sovereign would be valued less in other countries, and all exchange operations would be sensibly affected.
    keywords: 1st; 3rd; abundance; abundant; account; acres; adobe; advance; afternoon; aguardiã; alcalde; american; anchor; angeles; animals; appearance; arms; army; arrival; arrive; arroyo; articles; artillery; authority; baggage; bank; barbara; battalion; bay; bear; beautiful; bed; beef; best; better; black; blankets; board; boat; body; bread; breadth; breakfast; broken; buildings; caballada; california; camp; captain; care; case; cattle; certain; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; church; citizens; city; climate; clothing; clouds; coast; coffee; cold; colonel; colorado; command; commandant; commerce; commercial; commodore; common; company; condition; considerable; convenient; cool; corn; country; course; creek; crew; daily; dark; day; daylight; days; december; deep; deer; description; deserted; determined; diego; different; difficulty; direction; discovery; distance; distant; dollars; don; doubt; dressed; dry; dust; early; earth; east; eastern; effect; elevated; emigrants; empties; end; enemy; english; entire; entrance; equal; established; evening; evergreen; excellent; exception; expedition; extensive; extent; eye; fall; families; family; feet; fell; fertile; field; fine; fire; following; foot; force; foreign; fork; form; fort; francisco; fremont; fresh; frijoles; fruit; furnished; gardens; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; grape; grass; grazing; great; greater; ground; half; hand; harbour; hard; head; height; helvetia; herds; hides; high; hills; home; horses; host; hour; house; immense; important; indians; individuals; information; inhabitants; intelligence; interesting; interior; islands; january; joaquin; josã; journey; juan; june; kearny; kind; known; labour; lake; land; landing; large; largest; larkin; late; law; laws; leave; left; length; letters; level; lieutenant; life; like; little; live; long; los; lower; luis; main; making; man; manner; march; mason; meat; meet; men; merchant; messrs; mexican; mexico; miles; military; mill; mineral; miserable; mission; money; monterey; month; morning; mountains; mud; named; native; natural; navy; near; necessary; nevada; new; night; north; northern; november; number; numerous; o'clock; oak; oaks; oats; ocean; october; officers; open; opposite; order; ounce; p.m.; pacific; pack; parties; party; pass; people; persons; pico; picturesque; pieces; place; plain; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; population; portion; portsmouth; position; pounds; present; price; principal; private; produce; productions; property; provisions; public; pueblo; purpose; quality; quantities; quantity; quarters; race; rain; rancheria; rancho; range; received; regard; region; reported; residence; resident; return; rich; ridge; river; road; rocks; room; route; run; sacramento; said; sailors; salinas; salt; san; san diego; san francisco; san joaquin; san josã; sand; santa; saw; scattered; sea; season; september; servant; service; settlement; ships; shore; sierra; silver; size; sloop; small; soil; soldiers; sonoma; south; southern; spanish; specimens; spring; square; states; stockton; storm; straits; stream; subject; sufficient; summits; sun; sunset; superior; supply; surface; sutter; table; tallow; temperature; territory; tide; timber; timbered; time; town; trade; trail; travelling; trees; tule; u.s; united; upper; usual; valley; vallã; valuable; value; variety; vast; vegetables; vegetation; vessels; vicinity; view; visit; volunteers; walls; want; war; warm; washing; washington; water; way; weather; weeks; west; whale; wheat; white; wide; wild; wind; wine; winter; women; wood; work; world; yards; years; york; young
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        item: #4 of 26
          id: 13384
      author: Hough, Emerson
       title: The Covered Wagon
        date: None
       words: 89607
      flesch: 92
     summary: Perfect! Her gaze mayhap sought the tall figure of the young commander, chosen by older men above his fellow townsman, Sam Woodhull, as captain of the Liberty train. But you have other men.
    keywords: 'em; advance; agin; ahead; air; ancient; animals; answer; arms; army; arrow; attack; away; bad; ball; band; banion; bank; bar; bearded; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; bill; black; blankets; blood; blue; boat; body; bow; boy; boys; brave; break; bridger; bring; broke; buffalo; buffler; business; caleb; california; camp; cap'n; captain; caravan; care; carry; carson; cast; cattle; certain; chance; chapter; chardon; charge; children; circle; clean; close; cloud; cold; column; coming; command; company; corral; council; country; course; cover; covered; crossed; crossing; crows; cry; cup; cut; damn; damned; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; desert; distance; dogs; dollars; doniphan; door; double; doubt; dozen; drive; driving; dry; dust; earlier; early; east; easy; edge; emigrants; encampment; enemy; entire; evening; eyes; face; faint; fair; fall; fallen; families; family; far; fashion; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; felt; fer; figure; fine; fire; flat; flour; flung; folks; following; fool; foot; ford; fork; fort; fortune; forward; free; friends; frontier; fur; fust; gal; game; gap; general; giant; girl; git; god; going; gold; good; government; grass; gray; great; green; greenwood; ground; group; guard; guess; hain't; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; headed; heads; heart; heavy; hell; help; herd; hide; high; hills; hit; hold; holding; home; hoofs; hope; horn; horse; hour; huh; human; hundreds; hunt; husband; illinois; indian; injun; instant; inter; island; jackson; jed; jesse; jest; jim; journey; jump; keen; kelsey; kentucky; kill; kin; kiss; kit; known; land; laramie; late; law; lay; leader; left; length; liar; liberty; life; like; line; lips; little; live; long; longer; look; loose; lost; lot; love; lying; ma'am; mad; main; major; making; man; married; matter; mean; meat; medicine; meeting; men; miles; mind; missouri; missourians; molly; molly wingate; month; more'n; mormons; morning; mother; mountain; mud; mule; nation; nature; near; neck; need; new; news; nigh; nodded; north; nothin'; ohio; old; old man; open; order; oregon; out'n; oxen; pack; pale; park; party; passing; past; paused; pawnees; people; personal; pick; picture; place; plains; platte; plenty; plow; point; post; prairie; price; prisoner; promise; proved; purpose; question; reach; ready; real; rear; reason; reckon; rendezvous; rest; rich; ride; riders; riding; rifle; right; river; road; rockies; roll; rope; rose; rude; run; running; rush; saddle; safe; sam; sam woodhull; sand; savage; save; scattered; school; scout; seat; second; secret; seed; self; sense; set; shook; shore; shot; shoulder; sides; silence; silent; sioux; sir; slow; small; smoke; snake; soil; sort; soul; sound; south; spanish; spare; split; spread; spring; standing; start; stay; steady; stock; stop; straight; strange; stream; strong; sudden; sun; supplies; sure; susannah; sweet; swift; talk; tall; teams; tell; tepee; ter; terror; thar; thief; thing; thought; throw; time; touch; town; trade; trading; train; travel; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; unknown; use; usual; valley; vast; village; voice; wagon; wagon train; wait; want; war; watch; water; way; ways; weapons; wedding; west; western; wet; whar; wheels; white; white man; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; wind; wingate; wingate train; woman; womern; woodhull; words; work; world; wounded; wrong; yan; yards; ye'll; ye're; year; yer; yit; yonder; yore; young; young man
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        item: #5 of 26
          id: 14362
      author: Hough, Emerson
       title: The Way of a Man
        date: None
       words: 98904
      flesch: 90
     summary: I say, old man, he went on, a trifle weary now, you've won. That was like my father--innocent, unsuspicious, ever ready to accept other men as worthy of his trust, and ever ready to help a stranger as he might.
    keywords: able; advance; afraid; america; anger; animals; annie; answer; antelope; arm; arms; army; arrow; auberry; ball; bank; bar; barrel; beautiful; bed; beginning; belknap; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; blade; blanket; blood; blue; boat; bodies; body; bond; boy; boys; break; breath; broken; brown; buffalo; bull; business; busy; camp; captain; care; case; certain; chance; chapter; cheek; church; civilization; clean; close; coat; cold; colonel; come; coming; content; contract; cook; cost; country; courage; course; court; covenant; cowles; creature; cut; dance; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; debt; deep; different; distance; doctor; dog; door; doubt; draw; drop; duty; eager; earth; east; easy; edge; ellen; engaged; england; evening; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; far; fashion; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; fighting; figure; finger; fire; fit; flag; floor; flowers; following; food; foot; forward; free; friend; gal; gallery; game; gate; gentleman; girl; git; glad; glance; gloves; god; gold; gone; good; gordon; grace; grass; gray; great; ground; gun; hair; half; hand; hard; harry; hat; head; heap; heart; heavy; hide; high; hills; hold; holding; home; honor; hope; horror; horse; hour; human; hunt; hunting; husband; indian; instant; interest; jack; jackson; jefferson; john; jonas; journey; judge; kind; kitty; knife; known; lady; lands; laramie; large; late; laughing; law; lay; leave; left; length; lie; lieutenant; life; like; line; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; loose; love; low; lower; lying; man; mandy; marriage; married; match; matters; mcgovern; meat; medicine; meeting; men; meriwether; miles; mind; miss; missouri; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mountains; mrs; music; mystery; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; new; night; north; nose; officers; old; open; opposite; orme; pain; pale; party; pay; people; perfect; place; plains; platte; play; pointed; poor; present; promise; proof; purpose; question; quiet; ragged; reach; ready; real; rear; reason; red; reeves; rest; return; ride; riding; rifle; river; road; room; rose; run; running; saddle; safe; sand; satan; savage; saw; saying; scattered; scene; seat; second; secret; servant; set; shade; shelter; sheraton; shot; shoulder; sign; silent; simple; sioux; sir; skin; sky; slavery; small; smile; snag; society; soft; sort; soul; sound; south; speech; spite; splendid; sprang; standing; stars; state; steel; stevenson; stone; stop; story; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; sudden; sun; sure; surprise; sweet; swift; talk; tall; terror; thee; thicket; things; thinking; thought; time; touch; trail; travel; tree; trouble; true; truth; turn; turning; use; usual; valley; vast; village; virginia; voice; wagon; walk; wallingford; want; war; water; way; ways; weak; weeks; west; western; westward; white; wide; wife; wild; williams; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wrong; yards; years; young
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        item: #6 of 26
          id: 19113
      author: Bonner, Geraldine
       title: The Emigrant Trail
        date: None
       words: 121016
      flesch: 85
     summary: That's the Emigrant Trail, he smothered a sigh, and his trouble found words: It's not for old men, Missy. Old! There are lots of other men in the world, she said indifferently.
    keywords: accustomed; action; advance; afraid; afternoon; anger; angry; animals; answer; answering; arm; arms; attention; baby; background; backward; bacon; bad; bank; bare; bear; beat; beating; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; bella; bent; bess; best; better; big; black; blanket; blood; blow; blue; bluffs; body; books; bore; boughs; bowed; boy; brady; branches; break; breaking; breast; breath; breathing; bridger; bright; broken; brown; buffalo; build; burden; burst; bushes; business; busy; cabin; california; camp; camped; canvas; caravan; care; careful; catch; change; chapter; cheek; chest; chief; children; chill; circle; city; clear; close; clothes; cloud; coast; coffee; cold; color; colored; comfortable; coming; command; company; consciousness; content; cool; country; courant; course; creature; cry; cup; curiosity; curious; curled; current; cut; daddy; daddy john; damp; dark; darkness; daughter; david; dawn; day; days; dead; death; deep; depths; desert; desire; desperate; different; distance; distant; doctor; dog; door; dreadful; dream; drooped; dropping; dry; dust; dying; early; earth; ease; edge; effort; elbow; emigrant; end; evening; experience; expression; eyed; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fallen; falling; far; fate; father; fatigue; fear; fearful; feeling; feet; felt; feminine; figure; find; fine; fingers; fire; firelight; fixed; flame; flat; following; foot; force; forehead; form; fort; forward; free; french; fresh; friend; frightened; frontier; future; garden; gaze; gentleman; gillespie; girl; glad; glance; glen; glow; god; godin; gold; golden; gone; good; grass; gray; great; green; group; growth; gun; hail; hair; half; halt; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hat; hate; head; heart; heavy; help; hidden; hide; high; higher; hills; hold; holding; hollow; home; hood; hoofs; hope; horizon; horse; hour; human; hungry; husband; idea; imagination; important; independence; indian; inner; inside; instinct; interest; island; joe; john; journey; joy; kind; kiss; knees; knew; knowing; known; lady; land; landscape; laramie; large; late; laugh; laughing; law; lay; lean; leaves; leff; left; leg; length; level; lie; life; like; line; lips; listening; little; live; living; log; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; loose; lost; louis; love; low; lucy; mad; making; man; manner; march; married; matter; mcmurdo; meal; measure; meat; meet; memory; men; middle; mighty; mind; missy; moment; money; mood; morning; mother; motionless; mountain man; mountains; mouth; movement; moving; mud; mules; naked; nature; near; nearer; neck; need; new; news; night; note; old; old man; ones; open; opening; opposite; oregon; outside; oxen; pack; pail; pale; pans; parties; party; passion; past; pause; people; person; pick; picture; piece; pine; pipe; pity; place; plain; platte; pleading; point; pointed; poor; power; prairie; presence; present; pretty; promise; prospect; question; questioning; quick; quiet; quivering; rage; ragged; raised; ready; rear; reason; red; response; rest; rich; ride; riding; rifle; rim; river; road; rochester; rock; roof; roots; rose; rough; round; route; running; rush; sacks; sacramento; saddle; sage; savage; save; saw; scarlet; scene; search; seat; second; secret; self; sense; separated; servant; set; setting; sewing; shadow; shaken; shape; sharp; shirt; shot; shoulder; showing; shut; sick; sides; silence; silent; silver; skin; sky; sleep; slight; slope; slow; small; smile; smoke; snow; soft; softness; solemn; song; sorry; sort; soul; sounds; space; spark; speech; speed; spell; spirit; spot; spread; spring; squaws; stand; start; state; step; stillness; stones; stop; story; straight; strained; strange; stream; strength; stretched; strong; stronger; struggle; struggling; subject; sudden; suffering; suggestion; sun; sunset; supper; sure; surface; surprise; susan; sweeping; sweet; talk; tall; tenderness; tent; terrible; thick; thing; thinking; thought; thread; throat; thrust; time; tired; tone; tongue; touch; town; train; trappers; trees; trembling; truth; turn; turning; twilight; understanding; unknown; useless; valley; village; vision; vitality; voice; wagon; wait; waiting; walk; walls; want; warm; watching; water; way; ways; weakness; weather; weeks; weight; west; westward; wet; wheel; whip; whisper; white; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; wind; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; wondering; words; work; world; worn; years; yellow; york; young; young man; zavier
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        item: #7 of 26
          id: 21459
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Dick Onslow Among the Redskins
        date: None
       words: 86223
      flesch: 82
     summary: How indifferent should I have been to it at other times! I'll tell you about that and many other things, when we have more time, he replied.
    keywords: able; account; advanced; adventures; air; animals; anxious; appearance; approach; arms; arrows; assistance; attack; attempt; axe; bank; bear; best; better; blood; blount; body; bones; breakfast; bruin; buffalo; bushes; camp; canoe; care; case; cavern; certain; chance; chapter; chief; children; clear; cliff; climb; close; cold; comfortable; coming; companions; considerable; countenance; country; course; cries; cunning; cut; dacotahs; danger; dark; day; daylight; days; dead; death; deep; delaware; desperate; dick; difficulty; direction; distance; dog; doubt; dozen; dreadful; dry; ears; edge; enemies; enemy; escape; evening; events; eyes; face; fall; fallen; family; fancy; far; farther; fast; fate; fear; feet; fellow; fire; fish; flesh; flight; fly; following; food; foot; force; fort; free; friends; glad; good; grass; great; greater; grizzly; growl; half; hand; hard; head; heart; height; help; high; hill; hold; hole; hope; horses; hours; huge; human; hunger; hungry; hurried; hut; idea; inclined; indians; inside; instant; intense; john; journey; laban; large; lay; left; legs; length; let; life; like; likely; limbs; line; little; loaded; long; longer; look; looking; lost; loud; man; mass; matter; means; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mountain; mouth; nature; near; nearer; necessary; neck; neighbourhood; night; noggin; noise; north; number; obed; old; open; party; pass; pawnees; people; perfect; piece; pipestick; place; plain; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; pointed; pole; poor; powder; prairie; precipice; prepared; present; pretty; progress; provisions; purpose; raft; ragget; rapid; rattlesnake; reach; ready; reason; red; rescue; rest; return; rifle; river; rock; rope; round; run; rushing; safety; sam; satisfaction; savages; scalp; scouts; search; set; short; shrieks; silence; sitting; skins; sky; sleep; small; smoke; snow; speed; spot; spring; start; state; sticks; stop; stranger; stream; strength; strong; sufficient; sun; supply; sure; tent; terrific; thick; things; thought; time; trail; trees; tribe; use; usual; voice; wagon; want; warm; warriors; watch; water; way; west; white; wide; wild; wind; winter; wish; wolf; wolves; women; wood; work; young
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        item: #8 of 26
          id: 23066
      author: Marcy, Randolph Barnes
       title: The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
        date: None
       words: 78163
      flesch: 80
     summary: Delaware Mountain.--Road passes over a very beautiful country, with small streams of good water frequent, and good camps. Buffalo Springs.--Springs of good water, but of limited amount, in a ravine. 12.
    keywords: able; abrupt; abundance; accidents; action; advance; advantage; albuquerque; animals; antelope; approach; arkansas; arms; army; articles; attached; attack; bad; bank; bear; beautiful; beaver; bed; bent; best; best grass; better; big; black; blanket; blue; bluffs; boat; body; branch; branches; bridger; broken; buckskin; buffalo; bunch; california; camping; camps; canadian; canvas; captain; care; cause; cañon; cedar; centre; chapter; character; cherry; chief; chips; circle; circumstances; city; climate; close; cloth; cold; colorado; comanche; commander; common; company; compass; condition; continued; convenient; cottonwood; country; course; covered; creek; creek.--good camp; creek.--permanent; creek.--road; creek.--the; creek.--water; crosses; crossing; current; cut; danger; day; days; deep; deer; del; delaware; desert; different; difficult; direction; distance; distant; divide; drive; dry; early; earth; east; eastern; effects; elevated; elm; end; ends; enemy; entire; escape; example; excellent; expedition; experience; fact; fall; farther; fast; feet; ferry; fine; fire; firm; flat; flour; following; foot; force; ford; fork; form; fort; frame; french; frequent; fresh; frontier; fuel; game; general; girth; good camp; good camping; good grass; good road; good water; good wood; grain; grand; grass; grass abundant; grass plenty; grass poor; grass scarce; grazing; great; greater; green; ground; guard; gun; gutta; habits; hair; half; halt; hand; hard; head; heat; heavy; herd; hide; high; high water; hills; hold; holes; horn; horse; hours; humboldt; hunter; hunting; illustration; important; inches; indians; intervals; iron; journey; kind; knapsack; known; labor; lake; laramie; large; leavenworth; leaves; left; legs; length; level; liable; lieutenant; life; likely; line; little; little grass; loaded; localities; locality; lodge; long; look; loose; lost; lower; mail; main; man; manner; march; marching; mare; means; meat; men; method; mexican; mexico; miles; military; milk; mission; missouri; morning; mountains; muddy; mule; narrow; nature; near; necessary; new; north; number; numerous; object; occasion; officers; old; open; opinion; opposite; order; oregon; outside; oxen; pack; particular; parties; party; paso; passes; peak; pecos; people; percha; persons; picket; piece; place; plains; plan; platte; plenty; point; poison; pole; pommel; pools; poor; portable; portion; position; possible; pounds; powder; practice; prairie; prefer; present; proper; purpose; rains; rancho; range; rapid; ravine; reach; ready; rear; rest; return; rifle; right; rio; river; river.--at; river.--good; river.--good camp; river.--road; river.--the; road; rocky; rolling; rope; rough; route; running; runs; saddle; sage; salt; san; sandy; santa; saw; scarce; season; seat; section; secure; service; set; shape; shelter; short; sides; signals; similar; simple; single; sink; skin; small; smith; smokes; smooth; snake; snow; soda; soft; soldier; south; southern; speed; spring; starting; states; station; steep; stick; stout; strap; stream; strikes; strong; subject; successful; sufficient; summer; summit; sun; supplies; supply; surface; sweet water; system; teams; tent; texas; thick; thing; timber; time; total; town; track; trail; transportation; traveler; traveling; trees; tribes; troops; turn; uncertain; upper; use; utah; valley; vegetables; vicinity; wagons; walk; wallah; war; water; water plenty; way; weather; weight; west; western; wet; wheels; white; wide; wild; willow; wind; winter; wood; wooden; work; wound; yards; years; young; yuma
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        item: #9 of 26
          id: 26858
      author: Maxwell, Wm. Audley (William Audley)
       title: Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method
        date: None
       words: 26098
      flesch: 71
     summary: If it could be proved that white men co-operated with the savages in the Wood case, the inference would be strong that the same white men had been accessories in the Holloway massacre. The use of guns in those attacks, and the evident abundance of ammunition in the hands of the Indians, went far toward proving the connection of white men with both these cases.
    keywords: animals; articles; attack; away; band; bank; barren; bear; best; big; black; body; boys; brother; buck; buffalo; bush; california; camp; captain; case; cattle; chapter; charge; child; circumstances; clear; coffee; coming; company; conditions; considerable; country; course; court; cover; cow; creek; crossing; cut; darby; day; days; dead; death; deep; desert; distance; drink; dry; dust; early; edge; effort; emigrants; end; entire; evening; events; evidence; experience; eyes; family; far; farther; feeling; feet; fellow; fire; flat; foot; form; giving; gold; good; gravy; great; greater; green; ground; half; hand; hard; head; high; hills; holloway; home; hope; horses; humboldt; illustration; indians; individuals; jack; jerry; john; journey; judge; kind; knowledge; known; large; left; life; like; line; little; long; look; loose; man; maxwell; means; members; men; middle; miles; milk; missouri; moment; months; morning; mountains; mrs; mule; natural; night; number; occasion; open; order; oxen; party; passage; passing; people; persons; piker; pistol; place; plains; platte; point; position; possible; post; prairie; present; protection; ready; real; rear; reason; ridge; river; road; rock; rope; route; safety; sage; sand; savage; scene; service; sheriff; shore; shot; single; situation; slight; slow; small; sort; spot; spring; stampede; stock; stone; stop; storm; stream; sufficient; sun; supply; taking; team; territory; thought; time; tooly; train; travel; trees; trip; use; valley; view; wagon; water; weather; weeks; west; white; wide; wife; women; wood; word; yards; years; young
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        item: #10 of 26
          id: 27300
      author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
       title: The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains
        date: None
       words: 44537
      flesch: 90
     summary: Poor Tom looked from one to another; but all faces were unfriendly. This discovery set Tom broad awake at once.
    keywords: able; acquaintance; afraid; age; alderman; belle; best; better; bills; boat; boston; boy; breakfast; brother; business; california; camp; chance; chapter; children; cincinnati; city; clerk; companion; company; confidence; country; course; danger; day; deal; death; disappointment; distance; dollars; door; doubt; drink; escape; eyes; face; fact; farm; father; fear; fellow; ferguson; fletcher; fortune; friend; gentleman; girl; glad; gold; good; graham; great; half; hand; hard; head; heart; help; hero; home; honest; hope; horse; hotel; hour; hudson; indians; interest; interpreter; jennie; journey; lady; large; lawrence; leader; leave; left; life; like; likely; little; long; look; looking; loss; making; man; mark; mary; matter; mean; men; miles; milton; mind; money; morning; mortgage; mother; mrs; near; necessary; need; nelson; new; night; officer; party; peabody; pittsburg; place; plains; pleasant; pocket; pocketbook; poor; pretty; question; quiet; ready; rich; ride; river; room; roommate; scotchman; scott; seat; service; sinclair; sir; sleep; small; solomon; squire; start; stateroom; strong; sure; surprise; talk; things; thinking; thought; time; tom; tone; travel; true; turn; use; vincent; voice; walk; wallet; walter; watch; waterbury; watson; way; white; wife; willing; wish; work; world; worth; years; york; young
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        item: #11 of 26
          id: 29543
      author: Meeker, Ezra
       title: Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
        date: None
       words: 55496
      flesch: 81
     summary: We passed many a team, broken down as a result of those first few days of rush. To accomplish the purpose of marking the trail would have been enough to make the journey worth while to me, besides all the interest of freshening my recollections of old times and reviving old memories.
    keywords: able; acres; american; animals; army; attention; baby; bank; bay; bear; bed; best; better; big; blanket; bluff; boat; bobby; body; book; boy; boys; bread; broken; bros; brother; brown; buck; buffalo; building; business; cabin; california; camp; camping; canoe; capital; care; cattle; cents; chapter; children; city; claim; clams; clear; clothing; columbia; columbia river; common; company; continent; country; course; cow; cows; craft; crossing; cut; dalles; dandy; dave; day; days; death; deep; distance; dog; dollars; drive; driving; dust; early; earth; effort; emigrants; end; evening; expedition; experiences; ezra; fact; falls; family; farm; father; feet; field; find; finding; fine; fire; fish; following; food; foot; fort; fresh; friends; general; gold; good; graves; great; greater; ground; half; hands; hard; head; heart; heavy; help; high; highway; hill; history; hold; home; hop; hops; hours; house; hudson; idaho; illustration; incident; independence; indianapolis; indians; interest; iowa; island; jim; journey; june; kind; labor; land; landing; large; law; leave; left; life; like; line; little; lives; logs; long; look; loose; loss; lost; making; man; march; mark; matter; mcauley; meeker; meet; men; miles; mind; missouri; money; months; monument; morning; mother; mountain; natchess; near; nebraska; necessary; neighbors; new; night; north; northwest; number; office; ohio; old; old oregon; old trail; oliver; olympia; open; oregon; oregon trail; outfit; overland; oxen; pacific; party; pass; passing; past; pay; people; pioneers; place; plains; platte; plenty; point; pony; portland; possible; post; pounds; prairie; provisions; puget; puyallup; question; railroad; range; reach; ready; region; report; result; return; rich; river; road; rock; room; roots; rope; route; run; rush; saw; school; scow; search; second; sell; set; settlers; ships; shoes; short; sick; site; small; snake; snow; sound; south; spot; springs; start; states; stay; steamer; steep; steilacoom; stock; stone; story; struggle; summit; sun; sure; team; tent; territory; thick; things; thought; tide; timber; time; town; track; trail; trains; travel; tree; trip; trouble; true; turn; twist; united; valley; wagon; want; war; washington; water; way; weather; week; welcome; west; western; white; wide; wife; wild; william; wind; winter; women; wonder; words; work; world; worn; wyoming; years; yoke; york; young
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        item: #12 of 26
          id: 31384
      author: Cole, Gilbert L.
       title: In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852
        date: None
       words: 23905
      flesch: 77
     summary: There was one steam ferry-boat, which had several days crossing registered ahead. Having a kit of tools with me, I set about shaping spokes out of the oak wood gathered several days before.
    keywords: afternoon; animals; bank; beatrice; beautiful; bed; best; big; blue; boat; book; bright; broken; bunch; california; camp; camping; captain; cattle; caã±on; certain; chapter; clear; close; coffee; cold; cole; company; conditions; country; couple; creek; crossing; cut; day; days; dead; deep; desert; distance; distant; drink; drove; dry; early; earth; end; entire; eyes; face; fact; feed; feet; fire; foot; fort; gilbert; gold; good; grass; great; green; ground; guard; gun; half; hand; hard; head; high; hills; hold; home; horse; hour; humboldt; immense; indians; interest; interesting; journey; july; land; large; leaving; left; life; like; line; little; long; loose; man; march; men; miles; missouri; morning; mountain; mrs; mule; nature; nebraska; new; night; number; o'clock; old; open; pack; pass; place; plains; platte; point; prairie; provisions; range; ready; region; rest; rifle; river; road; rock; route; saddles; sand; sense; set; shot; snow; sort; south; spot; spring; stewart; stock; story; stream; strong; sun; supper; teams; tent; things; thought; timber; time; today; trail; travelling; tree; trip; valley; wadsworth; wagon; water; way; wheel; white; wide; wife; willows; woman; work; years
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        item: #13 of 26
          id: 31449
      author: Frizell, Lodisa
       title: Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell
        date: None
       words: 16427
      flesch: 72
     summary: I left the boat this morning with a family with whom I had formed an agreeable acquaintance, who were going to California, & they having accertained that it was impossible to get boarding in town, concluded to cross the river, & pitch their tent, & having a good sheet iron cooking stove & they would board themselves; & as their teems were coming by land & not expected for several days I was invited to go over with them which I accordingly did. I saw several teams approaching the town, & I suppose I saw ours, for they came in about that time, but I did not see the grey pony (which I afterwards learned they had sold her back getting sore) nor the blue steer which had died concluded it was not them, returned to the house, & thought if it was them they would soon be in, but as it proved the letter which I had deposited in the P. O., informing them of my wherebouts, was nailed upon the door, & had been covered over by others of more recent date, I had also left word with the commission merchant to whom the goods were shiped that I was going over the river to stay several days prehaps
    keywords: affluent; appearance; april; bad; bank; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; black; blue; board; buffalo; california; cattle; children; co.; cold; company; county; creek; cross; crossing; day; days; dead; delano; distance; distant; drove; evening; excellent; family; father; feet; ferry; fine; fire; fort; frizzell; frémont; good; grass; graves; great; ground; half; hard; head; hear; high; hills; home; hours; house; husband; indians; joseph; journal; journey; june; kansas; laramie; large; left; like; little; long; look; louis; man; men; miles; missouri; morning; mountains; mrs; muddy; near; nebraska; new; night; north; note; number; old; opposite; original; pacific; pass; passing; people; place; plains; platte; plenty; red; river; road; rocky; route; sandy; set; shot; sic; small; south; stream; supper; sweet; team; tent; timber; time; town; travel; view; vol; waggon; warm; washington; water; way; went; west; wild; wood; wyoming; years
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        item: #14 of 26
          id: 31780
      author: None
       title: Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51
        date: None
       words: 31114
      flesch: 82
     summary: To see it and feel it in all its beauty, one must be hundreds of miles from civilization, out on those great ocean like prairies, where the sight of a tree is welcome to the traveler as the sight of a sail to the mariner when he has been for a long time traversing an unknown sea. Families, men, women and children thrown out in the wilderness hundreds of miles from civilized beings, and their main hope gone.
    keywords: a.m.; abundance; account; afternoon; alkali; antelope; antioch; attention; bad; bank; barren; bear; beautiful; best; better; blue; bluffs; bottoms; branch; buffalo; business; california; camped; camping; carson; cedar; chips; city; clear; co.; cold; coming; company; considerable; corn; country; course; creek; crossing; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deep; desert; distance; drove; dry; dust; early; emigrants; evening; excellent; exception; fact; far; feet; ferry; fine; flour; foot; fort; friends; gold; good; good grass; good water; granite; grass; grave; great; greatest; green; ground; half; hand; hay; head; heavy; high; hills; home; horses; hot; house; humboldt; illinois; inches; indian; iowa; joseph; journey; kind; lake; land; large; left; lie; like; little; litwiler; long; main; man; meat; men; miles; missouri; morning; mountains; nature; near; night; noon; north; o'clock; office; opposite; oxen; p.m.; pacific; peaks; people; perfect; place; plains; platte; pleasant; plenty; point; poor; prairie; provisions; pure; quartz; range; rest; river; road; rock; rods; route; runs; sage; salt; sand; saw; shot; small; snow; soil; south; springs; stampede; start; states; stock; storm; stream; sunday; supply; taking; teams; tents; timber; time; train; travel; trees; turn; valley; village; wagon; warm; water; way; weather; west; wide; wild; wind; wisconsin; wood; work; world; year; yesterday
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        item: #15 of 26
          id: 33450
      author: Smith, Charles W.
       title: Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850
        date: None
       words: 18406
      flesch: 84
     summary: The grass is very poor here, but is said to be better several miles in advance. In our course today we left the Platte several miles to the right and entered on a high region.
    keywords: advance; afternoon; april; banks; bear; better; blue; bluffs; boat; breakfast; buffalo; california; cattle; cedar; clouds; cold; company; consequence; cool; country; creek; day; days; deep; distance; distant; dry; early; emigrants; feed; feet; fine; flowers; fort; good; grass; great; green; half; heavy; high; hills; horses; indians; journal; july; june; laramie; large; left; length; level; like; little; man; march; men; miles; morning; mountains; narrow; near; new; night; number; numerous; o'clock; opposite; party; passengers; place; plain; platte; pleasant; poor; prairie; provisions; purpose; rain; range; reach; region; rest; river; road; rock; sage; sand; short; small; snow; soil; south; spring; start; stream; sun; sweet; teams; time; today; trail; travel; valley; wagons; warm; water; way; weather; west; wide; wild; wind; wood; yards; yesterday
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        item: #16 of 26
          id: 38351
      author: Bailey, Washington
       title: A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer
        date: None
       words: 16664
      flesch: 87
     summary: We had built our fires and were just ready to commence getting supper, when we heard the Indians begin holloing, Show shony, show shony, humbugen, humbugen oss cawaw cawaw, cawowaw cawowaw cawowaw cawaw cawaw. We prospected for a few days, but could find no gold, although there were a good many good, paying claims belonging to other men.
    keywords: american; aunt; bailey; bed; boat; boys; brother; cainsville; california; camp; cattle; chapter; chief; city; claim; country; cover; cow; crawford; creek; day; days; dirt; distance; dollars; drove; end; family; feet; foot; gold; good; grass; ground; hand; head; help; high; hold; holloed; horse; illinois; independence; indians; joel; john; joshua; land; lead; left; little; logs; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; near; night; north; ohio; order; oxen; party; place; plains; rest; river; rock; run; sack; sand; saw; shelf; springs; stock; thought; time; tom; trail; trip; uncle; valley; wagon; wash; water; way; west; william; wine; wisconsin; wolves; work
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        item: #17 of 26
          id: 40467
      author: Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
       title: Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California
        date: None
       words: 106058
      flesch: 91
     summary: But for Steve Jack would have blundered into one of the Indian sentries. Wall, you've got ter hear it, said the little hunter, as gently as he could, fer Jack here ain't never done nothin' ter harm you.
    keywords: abe; able; aer; aer yer; agin; amos; animal; answer; arms; attack; attention; audience; bad; bags; band; bank; beasts; beneath; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; blankets; boards; body; boys; breath; broken; buffalo; bullets; business; buy; california; camp; careful; carrots; cart; case; caught; certain; chance; chap; chapter; child; clear; cliff; close; coach; come; comin; common; comrades; conductor; constable; country; courage; course; critters; crowd; cut; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; different; diggin; direction; distance; doin'; dollars; door; doubt; dust; easy; enemy; ere; escape; evening; evidence; excitement; experience; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; far; farther; fast; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fer; find; fine; fingers; fire; fix; following; fool; foot; ford; forge; forward; free; friends; game; gee; general; gettin; git; goin'; gold; good; grass; gravel; great; grip; growled; guess; gun; half; hand; hard; hat; hawk; head; heap; heavy; help; herd; hero; hill; hold; hole; hopeville; horse; hosses; hour; huge; hull; hunter; hurt; idea; indians; individual; injuns; instant; iron; jack; jack aer; jacob; james; jest; job; joe; key; kid; kill; kin; kinder; kingsley; knife; lad; lantern; large; lead; leaving; ledge; left; legs; length; lie; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; little man; long; longer; look; lookin; lot; luck; making; man; mates; matter; means; men; mighty; miles; mind; miners; minutes; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; movement; mrs; murderer; near; neck; need; new; nigh; nothin'; number; occasion; old man; open; ordinary; orring; outer; outside; party; past; people; pepper; pipe; place; plains; play; point; pointed; position; possible; precious; pretty; prisoner; proper; pull; question; quick; reach; ready; real; reason; reckon; red; reins; rest; return; revolver; ride; riding; rifle; right; river; road; robbers; rode; roof; room; rough; round; run; rush; saddle; safe; sartin; saw; sayin; scout; second; seed; sense; set; seth; shanty; sharp; sheriff; shook; shooter; shootin; shot; shoulder; sich; sides; silence; simpkins; slow; small; smithy; smoke; somethin'; sort; sorter; speak; spot; stage; stand; standing; staples; steve; stockade; stop; story; straight; stranger; stream; strong; stuff; sudden; sun; sure; swing; tale; talkin; team; ted; tell; ter; thar; thar war; thet; things; think; thinkin; thought; tilt; time; time ter; tom; town; train; trees; trouble; turn; tusker; uncle; use; varmint; voice; wagon; wall; want; war; warn't; watch; water; way; weapon; week; west; whar; white; wide; wife; window; woman; wood; words; work; world; wounded; yards; yarn; ye'll; ye've; years; yer; yer kin; young; youngster
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        item: #18 of 26
          id: 42214
      author: Woodward, R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher)
       title: On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way
        date: None
       words: 122341
      flesch: 81
     summary: Said Pod: I'd like to know the reason. Said Pod, Hitting the trail on the plains in summer isn't as comfortable as driving a city ice-wagon.
    keywords: a'rony; account; afternoon; air; alkali; amused; animals; answer; appetite; apples; arms; arrival; ascent; asinine; astonishment; attention; audience; avenue; bad; bag; bags; balaam; ball; band; bank; barley; barn; barrel; bath; bear; beat; beautiful; bed; beds; bee; beer; best; better; big; bill; birds; bite; black; blacksmith; blankets; blood; blue; bluffs; board; body; book; boots; bottle; box; boxes; boy; boys; brayed; braying; bread; breakfast; breath; brick; bridge; broke; brush; buffalo; building; bull; burden; business; busy; cabin; cake; calf; calling; camp; camped; canteen; canvas; canyon; car; caravan; care; case; cattle; center; cents; chairs; chamber; change; chapter; character; cheers; cheese; chicago; chief; children; christmas; church; circus; citizens; city; clear; clerk; climb; climbing; close; clothes; club; coat; coffee; cold; college; colorado; colored; comfortable; coming; companion; company; comrade; conclusion; condition; cook; cool; coonskin; corn; corner; corral; cost; country; couple; courier; course; cowboys; coxey; cozy; crazy; creek; cross; crossing; crowd; crowded; cut; damfino; dance; dark; darkness; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; delicious; delighted; denver; desert; deserted; devil; different; difficulty; dining; dinner; direction; disappointed; distance; distant; distinguished; divide; doctor; dog; dogs; dollars; donkey; donks; door; double; doubt; dozen; dressed; drink; drinking; drop; drove; drum; dry; dust; duty; early; ears; earth; east; eating; effort; eggs; electric; embarrassed; emergency; escape; evening; event; excited; excitement; expected; expenses; experience; express; extra; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; family; famous; farewell; farmer; father; fed; feed; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fer; ferry; field; filled; fine; fire; fish; flat; floor; flowers; folks; following; fool; foot; fortune; francisco; free; fresh; friday; friend; frightened; frisco; frozen; fruit; gale; game; garden; gate; general; generous; genial; gentleman; girls; glad; god; gold; good; grand; grass; gray; grazing; great; green; group; guest; guide; guns; hair; half; hall; hand; handed; happy; hard; hat; hats; hay; head; headed; heap; heart; heavy; heels; help; hic; high; highway; hill; hold; hole; home; honor; horn; horses; host; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; hungry; hunter; hunting; ice; idea; illustration; inches; indian; indoors; informed; interested; interesting; invitation; iron; jackass; jackasses; jacks; jest; job; joke; journey; jump; keeper; kick; kicking; kind; know; ladies; lady; lake; landlord; lantern; large; late; laughter; lead; leave; leaving; lecture; left; legs; length; letters; level; life; lighted; like; likely; lincoln; line; lips; little; live; living; long; looking; lost; lots; lovely; luck; luggage; lunch; mac; mac a'rony; macaroni; machine; mad; main; making; man; manager; manner; march; mark; master; mayor; meal; means; meeting; men; mention; mess; midnight; miles; 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room; rope; rose; rough; round; route; run; saddle; safe; sage; salt; sam; sand; satisfied; saturday; saw; scene; school; season; seat; second; section; secure; seeing; set; shade; sharp; shoes; shook; shop; shot; shoulders; shut; sides; sign; silver; single; sir; situation; size; skates; sky; sled; sleep; sleeping; slow; small; smile; smith; smoke; snow; sober; soil; sojourn; song; sooner; sort; soul; speech; spirits; spite; spot; spread; spring; square; stable; standing; start; state; station; steed; steps; stomach; stop; store; straight; stranger; stream; street; strong; stuck; suit; summit; sun; sunday; superintendent; supper; supplies; sure; surprise; sweet; swim; talk; tavern; teeth; tell; tent; theatre; thing; thinking; thirst; thought; tickled; time; tired; tobacco; tooth; town; trade; trail; tramp; traveler; traveling; travels; trees; trip; trouble; trousers; true; tub; turn; turning; unpacked; upset; valet; valley; vehicle; view; village; visit; voice; wagon; walk; walking; walls; want; warm; water; way; weak; weather; week; welcome; west; western; wheelbarrow; whiskey; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; window; wire; wish; woman; wood; words; work; world; yard; year; yer; york; young; yuse
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        item: #19 of 26
          id: 42611
      author: Edwards, William Seymour
       title: In to the Yukon
        date: None
       words: 51800
      flesch: 76
     summary: Many men and even women have made their millions and gone out. Along the roadside we also saw many men digging and rocking for gold, who have leased a few square yards or an acre or two on a royalty and who are said to be working a lay.
    keywords: afternoon; air; alaska; american; angeles; arctic; arizona; aspen; atlin; atmosphere; august; banff; banks; barbara; basin; bay; beautiful; bennett; best; big; black; blocks; blue; board; boats; bonanza; bow; boys; bright; british; broncho; brown; buildings; business; cabin; california; camp; canada; canadian; canal; captain; caribou; cars; catch; cattle; center; cents; certain; chain; channel; chicago; chief; church; cincinnati; cities; city; clad; claim; clear; cleveland; climate; close; clouds; club; coal; coast; cold; colorado; columbia; coming; commerce; commercial; companies; company; continent; corn; country; creek; crops; crossing; crowd; current; cut; daily; dangerous; dark; dawson; day; days; deep; delightful; denver; difficult; diggings; dinner; distant; divide; dogs; dressed; dry; ducks; dust; early; earth; east; eastern; electric; energy; england; english; enormous; entire; evening; express; extensive; eye; eyed; eyes; face; fair; famous; far; farmers; farms; fast; feet; felt; fields; find; fine; fir; fish; fishing; fit; flat; flowers; foot; forests; fort; fox; francisco; free; freight; french; fresh; friends; fruit; fur; future; garden; gigantic; glacier; gold; golden; good; government; grand; granite; grass; gravel; grazing; great; great city; greater; green; half; hand; hay; head; heart; heavy; high; higher; hills; home; horse; hotel; hours; houses; hudson; hundreds; ice; illustration; immense; indian; intelligent; interior; iron; islands; japanese; journey; kanawha; keen; klondike; labor; lake; lake city; land; landscape; large; largest; late; lay; left; letter; life; lights; like; line; little; live; living; long; longer; los; louis; lovely; low; lying; mad; mail; making; man; masses; meadow; men; mexico; middle; mighty; miles; miles wide; millions; mining; minnesota; missouri; modern; money; monstrous; months; moose; mormon; morning; mountains; mrs; multitude; narrow; near; nebraska; new; night; north; northern; northwest; nuckolds; nuggets; number; o'clock; october; ohio; omaha; ones; open; orchards; oregon; otter; pacific; pass; passengers; paul; pay; people; pier; pine; place; plains; police; population; portland; power; prairie; present; public; puget; quiet; railroad; railway; rapids; reach; real; red; region; residence; rich; ride; river; road; rockies; rocky; room; route; run; saddle; sail; salmon; salt; san; sand; santa; saw; sea; season; seattle; second; secret; section; september; set; sheep; ship; shops; shores; short; silver; single; size; skagway; sky; slopes; small; snow; soil; solid; sound; south; southern; spirit; splendid; springs; standing; state; station; stay; steamer; stock; straight; stream; streets; stretches; strike; strong; substantial; summer; summits; sumptuous; sun; superb; superior; swift; table; tacoma; taku; tall; territory; thick; thing; tide; timber; time; town; trade; traffic; train; trees; trip; united; upper; valley; vancouver; vast; victoria; view; vigor; virginia; voyage; warm; washington; water; wealth; week; west; wheat; white; white horse; wide; wife; wild; winds; winnipeg; winter; women; wonderful; wood; work; working; world; wrangel; yakima; years; yellow; yesterday; york; young; yukon
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        item: #20 of 26
          id: 43897
      author: Otis, James
       title: Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail
        date: None
       words: 28764
      flesch: 65
     summary: While none of these periods is treated exhaustively, each is taken up so comprehensively and suggestively that further work can be made easily possible where more time is available. The man seated himself by my side as if satisfied that I was the one whom he sought, and began his business by saying:-- My name is John Mitchell.
    keywords: .60; advance; american; animals; antelopes; antoine; bank; beasts; best; better; boise; book; bridger; buffaloes; camp; care; cattle; certain; chief; children; columbia; company; country; cows; creek; crossing; danger; day; days; desire; difficult; distance; dozen; eager; early; emigrants; encampment; fact; far; father; feet; food; form; fort; fur; furs; gain; game; girl; good; grass; great; ground; guard; guide; half; halt; hand; head; heart; heavy; held; herd; high; history; home; horses; hour; hunters; hunting; idea; illustration; inches; independence; indians; john; john mitchell; journey; kansas; labor; lad; land; laramie; large; left; life; like; little; long; louis; making; man; manner; march; matter; meat; men; miles; missouri; mitchell; morning; mother; mountains; napoleon; necessary; need; new; night; old; order; oregon; oregon country; outfit; oxen; party; pawnees; people; picket; place; ponies; possible; post; prairie; rain; ready; reason; riding; river; savages; school; search; settlement; signs; sleep; small; snake; stand; stock; stories; storm; stream; susan; tents; time; traders; trading; trail; trappers; traveling; tribe; village; wagons; watch; water; way; wild; wilderness; women; words; work
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        item: #21 of 26
          id: 44671
      author: Grinnell, George Bird
       title: Jack in the Rockies: A Boy's Adventures with a Pack Train
        date: None
       words: 77144
      flesch: 83
     summary: We'll have to wait until to-morrow, until it gets light, and then take good horses and try to catch them. It was several hours before the camp quieted down again, and before daylight next morning forty or fifty men on good horses were prepared to follow the trail, and try to overtake the thieves.
    keywords: afraid; afternoon; animal; antelope; awful; bad; bear; beautiful; beaver; bed; best; better; big; birds; black; boat; body; boys; branches; brush; buffalo; bull; bunch; calf; camp; catch; caã±on; chance; chapter; chief; climb; close; continued; country; course; cow; cows; creek; cross; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deep; deer; distance; divide; dry; early; east; easy; edge; elk; end; fall; far; fast; fat; feeding; feet; fellows; fire; fish; flat; following; foot; fort; fresh; friends; game; geyser; glad; going; gone; good; grass; great; green; ground; guess; gun; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; herd; hezekiah; high; higher; hill; hillside; hold; home; horns; horses; hours; hugh; hunt; hunting; indians; jack; jackson; joe; kind; lake; large; left; length; level; like; likely; line; little; little way; lodge; long; long time; longer; look; lot; lots; lower; man; mandans; mean; meat; men; middle; mighty; miles; mind; moment; moose; morning; morrow; mountains; musselshell; narrow; near; nearer; neck; new; north; old; open; opposite; pack; park; pass; people; place; platte; plenty; point; prairie; pretty; quills; range; ravenhead; ready; reason; rest; ridge; riding; rifle; right; river; rock; rope; rose; run; saddle; saw; set; sheep; shooting; shot; shoulder; sides; sioux; skin; sky; small; snow; son; sort; south; spring; standing; start; stick; story; straight; stream; strong; summer; sun; sure; talk; tell; thick; things; thought; timber; time; tired; town; tracks; trail; travel; trees; trouble; trout; turning; upper; use; valley; view; village; wait; water; way; weather; west; wet; white; wide; willows; wind; winter; women; wonderful; work; yards; years; yellowstone; young
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        item: #22 of 26
          id: 45238
      author: Wyeth, John B. (John Bound)
       title: Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834
        date: None
       words: 118359
      flesch: 65
     summary: While we were eating, a little Welshman, whom we had stationed outside our camp to watch the horses, came running to us out of breath, crying in a terrified falsetto, _Indians, Indians!_ Our camp moved soon after, under the direction of Captain Thing, and in about four miles reached _Utalla river_, where it stopped, and remained until 12 o'clock.[137] [137] Umatilla River, whose earlier name appears to have been Utalla.
    keywords: absence; abundance; abundant; accident; account; accustomed; advantage; adventure; advice; affluent; afternoon; agreeable; american; animal; antelope; anxious; appearance; approach; arrival; arrows; articles; ashworth; assistance; astoria; attack; attempt; attention; away; baggage; ball; baltimore; band; bank; banneck; bar; bark; battle; bay; beads; bear; bearing; beautiful; beaver; bed; best; better; big; birds; black; blackfeet; blackfoot; blankets; blood; blue; bluffs; board; boat; bodies; body; bonneville; book; boston; bow; bows; boy; branch; branches; bread; breakfast; breast; brig; british; broken; brother; buffalo; buffaloes; building; bull; bushes; business; california; cambridge; camp; canoe; cape; captain; captain w.; captain wyeth; caravan; care; cascades; case; cast; certain; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; chinook; circle; circumstances; city; clark; clay; clear; clothing; cold; colorado; columbia; columbia river; comfortable; command; common; companions; company; condition; conduct; consequence; considerable; consult; contents; continent; countenance; country; course; creature; creek; crossing; curiosity; current; cut; dangerous; dark; dashing; day; days; dead; death; deep; deer; degree; departure; description; deserted; determined; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; disappointed; disappointment; disposition; distance; distant; dogs; dollars; doubt; dozen; dreary; dress; dresses; dry; early; earth; east; eastern; eating; edge; effect; elk; encampment; england; english; enormous; enterprise; escape; establishment; evening; evidence; excellent; exception; exhausted; expedition; experienced; expression; extensive; extent; extreme; eyes; face; fact; factor; fair; falls; family; fancy; far; farm; father; fatigue; favorite; fear; feelings; feet; fever; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flat; flocks; following; food; foot; force; forest; fork; form; fort; fortune; forward; frame; franchère; free; french; fresh; friend; friendly; friendship; fur; furs; future; gale; game; general; gentleman; george; glad; goddin; good; government; grand; grass; great; greater; green; grizzly; ground; grouse; guard; gun; guns; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; head; health; heart; heavy; height; herd; high; hills; history; hole; home; honor; hope; horn; horseback; horses; hour; house; hudson; huge; hunters; hunting; idaho; idea; iii; important; inches; independence; indians; influence; information; inhabitants; instant; intelligence; intended; interest; iron; islands; jacob; jason; john; journals; journey; july; justice; kamas; kanzas; kelley; killing; kind; kindness; knife; knives; known; lake; land; language; large; late; lava; lay; leader; leave; lee; left; length; letters; level; lewis; life; like; line; little; live; living; loaded; lodges; long; looking; loss; lost; loud; louis; lower; main; man; manner; march; massachusetts; masses; matter; mckay; mcloughlin; meal; means; meat; medicine; meeting; men; middle; midst; miles; milton; mind; minutes; miserable; missionaries; missionary; mississippi; missouri; mode; moment; months; morning; mountains; mouth; muddy; naked; narrative; narrow; nathaniel; nation; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; neighborhood; new; nez; night; noble; north; northern; northwest; note; number; numerous; nuttall; o'clock; object; observed; ocean; ogden; ohio; old; ones; open; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; oregon; oregon river; original; orleans; pacific; particular; parties; party; passage; pasture; path; pawnee; people; perfect; person; philadelphia; piece; pierre; pine; pittsburg; place; plain; platte; pleased; pleasure; plenty; point; poor; portion; possession; possible; post; pounds; powder; prairie; prepared; present; pretty; previous; principal; procure; progress; proper; property; provision; purpose; pursuit; quantity; question; race; rain; range; rapid; reach; ready; reason; red; region; rendezvous; report; rest; return; richardson; rifle; risk; river; road; rocky; root; rose; ross; rough; route; rugged; rum; running; saddle; salmon; salt; sandwich; sandy; satisfaction; savage; saw; scene; sea; search; second; service; set; settlement; settlers; sharp; ship; short; shoulders; sick; sides; similar; single; situation; skin; slow; small; smoke; smooth; snake; snow; society; soil; sound; space; species; spirits; spot; spring; squaws; standing; states; station; steep; stewart; stock; stone; storm; strange; stream; strength; strong; subject; sublet; sublette; success; suffering; sufficient; summer; sun; supply; sure; surface; surprise; task; tent; terrific; territory; thicket; thickly; thing; thirst; thomas; thornburg; thought; timber; time; tobacco; toilsome; tongue; tour; town; townsend; trade; traders; trading; trail; trappers; trapping; travellers; travelling; travels; trees; tribe; trip; trouble; trout; true; truth; united; unusual; upper; usual; valley; valuable; vancouver; variety; vast; vessel; vicinity; view; vii; village; visit; volume; walla; wallammet; want; war; warm; water; way; weather; weeks; west; western; white; white men; whitman; wide; width; wigwams; wild; wilderness; willamette; william; willows; wind; winter; wish; wolf; wolves; women; wonder; wood; words; work; world; wormwood; worn; wounded; wretched; wyeth; yards; years; yellow; yesterday; york; young
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        item: #23 of 26
          id: 46906
      author: Palmer, Joel
       title: Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846
        date: None
       words: 91078
      flesch: 76
     summary: If such _was_ the design, it succeeded admirably. This was holyday with the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company, and such _ranting_ and frolicking has perhaps seldom been seen among the sons of men.
    keywords: abundance; account; acres; advance; advantages; afternoon; american; animals; appearance; april; arrival; articles; ascent; association; astoria; attempt; august; bad; band; bank; barlow; barren; base; bay; bear; bear river; beautiful; bed; best; better; big; black; blue; bluff; boat; body; bois; bottoms; branch; branches; bridger; broken; buckley; buffalo; buildings; bushes; business; california; camp; cape; captain; cascade; case; cattle; cayuse; cedar; cents; channel; character; charge; chief; children; city; clackamis; claim; clark; clatsop; clear; cliffs; climate; cloudy; coast; cold; columbia; columbia river; coming; common; compact; companies; company; considerable; corn; country; course; court; creek; crosses; crossing; cultivation; current; cut; dalles; dark; day; days; deep; deer; depth; descent; description; determined; diameter; different; difficulty; direction; distance; dividing; dollars; driving; drove; dry; early; east; eastern; effects; election; ellis; emigrants; emigration; empties; encampment; entire; evening; excellent; exchange; expedition; extensive; extent; eye; fact; falls; families; family; far; farms; farnham; feet; fern; fertile; fine; fire; fish; flour; following; food; foot; fork; form; fort; fourth; friends; frémont; fuel; game; gap; general; good; government; governor; grand; grass; gray; grazing; great; greater; green; green river; ground; groves; growth; guard; half; half miles; hall; hand; hard; head; heavy; height; herds; high; hill; historical; history; hold; home; hood; horses; hours; house; hudson; illinois; inches; independence; indians; influence; inhabitants; island; john; joseph; journal; journey; july; june; justice; kansas; kind; known; labor; lake; land; laramie; large; late; law; laws; lay; leaves; lee; left; legislature; length; level; lewis; lewis river; life; like; line; little; location; long; lookout; loose; lost; lower; main; making; man; manner; march; material; means; meat; meek; members; men; methodist; middle; miles; miles distant; miles travel; miles wide; mill; mission; missionaries; missionary; missouri; months; morning; mountains; muddy; narrow; near; necessary; new; nez; night; north; northern; northwest; note; number; numerous; o'clock; oak; ocean; october; office; officers; ohio; old; open; opening; opposite; order; oregon; oregon city; original; oxen; pacific; pack; palmer; party; pass; passage; passes; peak; people; percé; person; pilot; pine; pioneer; place; plains; platte; point; poor; population; portion; portland; possession; post; potatoes; pounds; powder; prairie; prepared; present; prices; principal; property; provisions; puget; purpose; quality; quantity; quarter; quarterly; rain; raising; range; rapid; ravine; reach; red; region; remainder; representatives; rest; return; rich; ridge; riding; river; river mountains; road; rock; rods; rolling; rope; rough; route; running; runs; said; salmon; salt; sandy; saw; season; second; september; services; settlement; settlers; sheep; shikam; short; sides; similar; size; small; smet; smith; snake; snow; soda; soil; sound; source; south; southern; spalding; spot; spring; standing; stands; states; stony; stream; strikes; striking; strong; sufficient; summer; supply; surface; sweet; teams; territory; thick; thought; timber; timbered; time; town; trade; trading; trail; travel; traveling; trees; tribe; trimble; trip; turns; unable; united; upper; usual; valley; vancouver; vegetation; vicinity; view; village; volume; wagons; wah; walker; wallawalla; war; warm; washington; water; way; weather; west; western; wheat; white; whitman; width; wild; willamette; willamette river; william; wind; winter; wood; words; work; world; xxix; xxviii; yam; yards; years; yellow; yesterday; york; young
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        item: #24 of 26
          id: 48142
      author: Crumpton, H. J. (Hezekiah John)
       title: The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys
        date: None
       words: 38439
      flesch: 81
     summary: Here at El Paso, they seem to have done their worst on old time--cheating him out of two hours when going West, or maybe they only borrow the two hours and pay it back on the trip East. Up to that point, I could see them looking wistfully at the flying train in day time and at night I could see their camp fires beside the track; but the stations are too far apart and the picking too poor beyond San Antonio for these enterprising travelers.
    keywords: adventures; afternoon; alabama; american; angeles; arizona; army; arrival; bank; baptist; bay; beautiful; bed; beloit; best; better; biggest; boat; border; boy; boys; breakfast; brother; building; business; california; camden; camp; captain; car; care; cattle; change; chapter; children; church; city; coast; col; company; condition; confederate; country; course; creek; crowd; crumpton; day; days; dead; dear; deep; determined; dinner; direction; doctor; door; dry; early; eating; eyes; face; fall; family; far; father; federal; feet; fellow; fine; fire; following; foot; fort; francisco; friends; gate; general; gentleman; girls; gold; good; government; grande; great; greenville; half; hand; hard; head; help; high; hill; history; home; hope; horses; hotel; hours; house; immense; indians; interest; job; kind; known; lady; land; large; late; law; lecture; left; letters; life; like; limited; line; little; long; los; lost; lot; mail; man; march; meeting; men; mexican; mexico; miles; mind; minutes; mississippi; mobile; money; month; morning; mother; mountains; mule; new; night; north; note; number; oakland; ocean; office; oil; old; open; original; orleans; overflow; owner; pacific; panama; party; paso; pass; passengers; pay; people; pistol; place; plains; pleasant; plenty; point; poor; possible; present; pretty; purpose; question; railroad; reader; ready; reply; return; returning; ride; rio; river; room; rough; route; run; saddle; salt; san; school; sea; seeing; short; sick; small; smith; soldiers; son; southern; spanish; spring; stand; start; state; station; stay; steamer; story; stream; streets; strong; sunday; sure; table; talk; territory; things; thompson; thought; time; town; train; tramp; travel; tribes; trip; trouble; uncle; visit; want; war; water; way; weather; weeks; west; wife; william; winter; words; work; world; yankee; years; york; young
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        item: #25 of 26
          id: 49089
      author: Gibson, J. W. (J. Watt)
       title: Recollections of a Pioneer
        date: None
       words: 69181
      flesch: 85
     summary: Two of these were Confederate soldiers and the remainder were old men leaving home for safety. I remained with my sister a day or two, never showing myself in daylight, for I learned from her that now since fear of southern soldiers was over, all those who were too cowardly to go to the front but had remained at home and robbed and harassed old men and women and children, were giving the community more trouble than at any time during the war.
    keywords: able; afternoon; arkansas; army; attack; attempt; attention; bank; battery; bear; best; better; big; billy; black; blankets; blue; boat; body; boys; breakfast; broke; brother; brush; buchanan; business; cabin; california; camp; camped; captain; care; cattle; chapter; charge; city; close; company; condition; continued; corn; country; course; creek; crossing; curl; cut; danger; day; daylight; days; dead; deep; desert; difficulty; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; door; drove; early; east; emigrants; end; evans; experience; fact; family; farm; farther; fast; fear; feet; fence; ferry; field; fine; fire; fish; following; food; foot; force; fort; friends; game; gates; general; gibson; gilmore; gold; good; grass; grazing; great; ground; guard; guns; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; herd; high; hill; hold; home; horses; hours; house; hunt; idea; incident; indians; isaac; jack; james; joseph; journey; lake; land; large; late; left; life; like; line; little; loaded; logs; long; look; loose; lost; lying; main; man; march; meat; men; miles; militia; minutes; missouri; moment; money; months; morning; mountain; navy; near; new; night; north; o'clock; old; open; opposite; order; oxen; pack; party; pass; place; plains; plan; platte; plenty; point; ponies; poor; position; prepared; pretty; price; provisions; pullins; raft; ranch; reach; ready; rear; recall; regiment; rest; return; reynolds; river; road; robert; rock; room; rough; run; sacramento; safe; salt; sand; saw; second; set; shore; shot; sister; situation; small; soldiers; south; spring; start; steele; stop; stream; sure; teams; tent; thick; thing; thought; timber; time; town; tracks; train; tree; trip; trouble; turner; valley; wagons; wait; war; watch; water; way; week; west; white; wild; william; wilson; winter; wolves; women; woods; work; wounded; yards; years; yoke; zack
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        item: #26 of 26
          id: 6077
      author: McGlashan, C. F. (Charles Fayette)
       title: History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
        date: None
       words: 77779
      flesch: 77
     summary: Mrs. Donner was urged to go with the relief party, but resolutely determined to heed the promptings of wifely devotion and remain by her husband. These two boys were not large enough to walk, Mrs. Donner was not strong enough to carry them, and the members of Captain Tucker's party had already agreed to take as many little ones as they could carry.
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