Autobiography 1857 Draft 1
on the . On while riding upon the running gears of a waggon, setting upon the
foreward bolster, the bolt came out of the copling pole which left the hind wheels I was imme-
diately shot up between the bolster and tongue with the coupling pole turned over upon the horses backs
the horses became frightened and ran onto an open prairie with me draging my head and
shoulders upon the ground after draging me in this position for several minutes I managed
to dr guide them so as to run into the corner of a high staked worm fence where I
landed with myself ^&^ horses in a pile, and escaped through the mercy of God with ownly a few
bruises without any broken bones. I settled my business and ^I^ returned to Quincy on the
