What did the wagon trains do for toilet paper during those long trips across the country?
Carl Spurrier
Owensboro, Kentucky
Travelers used grass or leaves or just plain dirt. Bark was also a paper substitute. It wasn’t pretty, but no worse than many other realities pioneers faced on the emigrant trail.
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