esser we were glad of their company, but there was no woman with them,
but 5 men one waggon 4 yoke of splendid cattle, they were merry fellows
and as we came up they joked us not a little about our looking for each
other at the same time. & congratulated us upon our success.

FOOTNOTES:

[14] On the Missouri River, from St. Louis to St. Joseph.

[15] The "Martha Jewett," of which W. C. Jewett was master, began her
trips on the Missouri River in 1852. She was "one of the finest and most
popular boats on the river in her day."

[16] Boonville, the county seat of Cooper Co., Mo.

[17] The "Saluda," a side-wheel steamer with double engine and two
boilers, having a capacity of 233 tons, was built in 1846. She exploded
at Lexington, Mo., on the morning of April 9, 1852, only eighteen days
prior to the above observation of Mrs. Frizzell.--_Chappell. History of
the Missouri River, 1906, p. 52, 74._

[18] Kansas City.

[19] Fort Leavenworth, two miles north of the city of Leavenworth, Kan.,
situate on Rattlesnake Hills, was first occupied as a cantonment in
1827, and became a regular fort of the U. S. government about 1832.

[20] Cannon.--_Original note_.

[21] Mrs. Frizzell made an error at this point, numbering the day as the
"18th", instead of 15th, which led to a misnumbering throughout. It has
been corrected here.

[22] Potawatomi and Winnebago.

[23] An original note names him "Major Stemmons, of Rockport, Mo." This
is evidently an error for _Slemmons_, a family-name that is yet found in
Atchison County.

[24] An allusion to the Knight of Snowdoun in Scott's _The Lady of the
Lake_.

[25] Calhoun Co., Ill.

[26] One of her sons.

CHAPTER III

FROM ST. JOSEPH TO FT. KEARNEY

Come now with me gentle reader, and let us cross the plains, I will
endeavor to show you whatever is worth seeing, & tell you as much as you
will care about hearing, while you are comfortably seated around your
own fireside, without fatiegue, or exposure, I will conduct you the
whole of this long & weary journey, which I wish if you should ever in
reality travel, that you may feel no more fatiegue than you do at the
presant moment, but I fear that you would, as you yourself will probably
admit before the close of this narative. This is considered th[e]
starting point[27] from this river is time reconed, & it matters not how
far you have come, this is the point to which they all refer, for the
question is never, when did you