At this point in her memoir Laura seems to have been ready to be done with the writing project, and much of the rest of her story was condensed (relative to the amount of detail in earlier pages). She dealt …
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By the time Laura and her children set out to return to Ohio for an extended stay there were three children (Willie, Nettie, and Henry). Henry, the youngest, had been born in Golden and was 19 months old when …
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The house J.W. was building in the mining community of Spanish Bar was ready for occupancy come the Spring of 1861 and the family moved in. It was time to start mining, but since there were prospectors working sites …
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The tent city outside Denver was a diverse little city including a minister and his family, gamblers, musicians, a saloon, and dens of “gambling and revelry of all sorts”. Only a few days there were enough for the Booth family …
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Before leaving Plattsmouth, the little caravan experienced a terrific storm of wind and hail and rain. The wind felt as if it might overturn the wagons and the hail pelted them as they gripped the flapping ends of the wagon …
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