By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860
By Lavinia Honeyman Porter · Running time 4:52:01 · Travel & Geography, Memoirs
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Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to cook); married to a professional man who knows “nothing of manual labor;” who is mother to a young son; and who has just found out she is pregnant with their second child. Imagine that this couple has become “embarrassed financially” by “imprudent speculations,” and that they are discussing what to do. They decide to buy a wagon and three yoke of unbroken oxen and head overland to California. "We were two such precious dunces,” writes Lavinia Honeym
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