Day after day, week after week, we went through the same weary routine of breaking camp at daybreak, yoking the oxen, cooking our meagre rations over a fire of sage-brush and scrub-oak; packing up again, coffee-pot and camp-kettle; washing our scanty wardrobe in the little streams we crossed; striking camp again at sunset, or later if wood and water were scarce. —Luzena Stanley Wilson, 1849 Beginning in 1843 when the first major emigrant wagon train crossed the Oregon Trail, the routine
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