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Day in the Life

May 11, 1850

Journal Entry

May 11, 1850 ~ Saturday

11th A man came on board this morning and informed
us that many were coming back from the plains & selling
out their teams & going home & so oxen were falling
no grass grown yet, the Mary Blane was at St Josephs
Yesterday. It seems as though the world were vary blind
to rush onto the plains in such vast Numbers to go
to the gold mines before any grass grows to sustain the
Oxen. We arived at St Josephs in the evening & spent the night
I called upon James Townsend & Stephen Markham

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St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri

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May 11, 1850