Emigrants heading west in covered wagons usually had a wagon master who knew the trails and had experience getting through the trials and travails of the trail safely. Pity those emigrants who didn’t go with experience and history tells us there were many of those. It was the wagon master’s job to maintain discipline and that was the key to surviving the trip. Still the stress and strain of the journey
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