Today My wagon train and I are leaving Ft. Kearny in search of Courthouse Rock, but first we have reach the California crossing and cross the south platte river. The river is too wide to be bridged and to shallow for a ferry so we have to cross it by using the sandbars. When we got in the water one of the children from another wagon almost drowned because of the current. It took us 30 minutes to get from one end of the river to the other. Not long after we crossed the river there was a very steep hill. I slid my wagon down backwards with a tree tied to the rear of the wagon. I ended up having to throw out my desk from my
