Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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About This Book

A first-person travel journal recounts a long wagon journey west through daily entries that blend practical travel details and camp routines with reflective commentary on leaving home. The narrative traces weather and river crossings, the rhythm of riding and cooking, encounters and camaraderie among fellow travelers, and moments of danger, humor, and small domestic comforts. Interspersed notices and reminiscences from companions reinforce themes of mutual support, endurance, and the motives and hardships that shape overland pioneer travel, offering vivid, plainspoken snapshots of life on the road.

PREFACE.

I do not expect to gain fame or fortune by the publication of this little book. I have prepared it for publication, because a number of the pioneers who read my journal twenty years ago, when published in The Husbandman, have asked me to.

At that time I was a busy wife, mother and housekeeper, and could only write when my baby boy was taking his daily nap, to supply the copy for each week. No one knows better than I how very imperfect it was, yet many seemed to enjoy it, and the press that noticed it at all spoke very kindly of it.

S. R. H.