This is hard for me to say, but I've had a hard time talking, or thinking about it. The death of my family, everyone is dead but me. It happened once we passed Soda Springs, that's when the kids got sick. My wife, Jane stayed in the wagon with them the whole time, while I was busy with the animals and the wagon. The day after the kids got it, was the day my wife got it, I was going to spend everyday with them, but Jane told me to leave them behind, since I never received the disease. They died the next morning. Me and the whole wagon train helped dig holes, and helped me take care of the animals and the wagon. With all of this going on, my brain is trying to block all this out, and just make it to Oregon before thinking about all of this again.
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But when we got here, there was nothing, all the stores were burned down, and there was nobody here. After us walking around, what was left of the town, we encountered a wagon with a family in it. I went to go talk to them, that's when they told us that the Cayuse Indian tribe came and burnt everything down. They also killed everyone that was in town that day, they did this, because of everyone coming through of the Oregon trail, disease were spreading. Also they were killing all the animals, so they Indians didn't have anything to hunt, and to eat. With this news, we decided to get out of there fast, and just continue onto Oregon. When we got the Dalles, we had to take the Barlow road, and pay a fee. The fee costed us, two dollars and fifty cents, but instead we traded him my plow, and ten cents. The rode is very rough, and very narrow, plus it is very steep. The only problem was keeping the wagon, on the road. But once we got through all this, we arrived in Oregon City, two thousand miles and six months.
It has been three months since I first arrived here, and I have already meet this one lady named Ellis. She is very kind, and also understands what I went through and what I'm dealing with. I know that Jane would want me to be moving on, not just wasting my life. With the death of my family, I have been working nonstop, and have already purchased new animals, and all new farming equipment and tools. My expectations had before I left to join the Oregon Trail, are completely different now. I see myself in ten years with a very big and wealthy farm, I also seeing me marry Ellis, and having another family
But when we got here, there was nothing, all the stores were burned down, and there was nobody here. After us walking around, what was left of the town, we encountered a wagon with a family in it. I went to go talk to them, that's when they told us that the Cayuse Indian tribe came and burnt everything down. They also killed everyone that was in town that day, they did this, because of everyone coming through of the Oregon trail, disease were spreading. Also they were killing all the animals, so they Indians didn't have anything to hunt, and to eat. With this news, we decided to get out of there fast, and just continue onto Oregon. When we got the Dalles, we had to take the Barlow road, and pay a fee. The fee costed us, two dollars and fifty cents, but instead we traded him my plow, and ten cents. The rode is very rough, and very narrow, plus it is very steep. The only problem was keeping the wagon, on the road. But once we got through all this, we arrived in Oregon City, two thousand miles and six months.
It has been three months since I first arrived here, and I have already meet this one lady named Ellis. She is very kind, and also understands what I went through and what I'm dealing with. I know that Jane would want me to be moving on, not just wasting my life. With the death of my family, I have been working nonstop, and have already purchased new animals, and all new farming equipment and tools. My expectations had before I left to join the Oregon Trail, are completely different now. I see myself in ten years with a very big and wealthy farm, I also seeing me marry Ellis, and having another family