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The Emigrant Trail, by Geraldine Bonner
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Title: The Emigrant Trail
Author: Geraldine Bonner
Release Date: August 24, 2006 [EBook #19113]
Language: English
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[Frontispiece: He gathered her in his arms, and bending low carried her back into the darkened cavern.]
THE EMIGRANT TRAIL
BY
GERALDINE BONNER
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
Published, April, 1910
CONTENTS
PART I
THE PRAIRIE
PART II
THE RIVER
PART III
THE MOUNTAINS
PART IV
THE DESERT
PART V
THE PROMISED LAND
THE EMIGRANT TRAIL
PART I
CHAPTER I
It had rained steadily for three days, the straight, relentless rain of early May on the Missouri frontier. The emigrants, whose hooded wagons had been rolling into Independence for the past month and whose tents gleamed through the spring foliage, lounged about in one another's camps cursing the weather and swapping bits of useful information.
The year was 1848 and the