June 13, 1854 Walter and Kathleen Sanders

We are far into our trail now. We are, to be exact, at prairie crossing. Our meals are fair and not to bad but, trust me they are not the best! We are fed a small share. Each family decides how much each person gets. For our family it is one dried fruit for breakfast and a half a pound of beef with two vegetables. Those are only on the days when we do not go hunting. When we do go hunting we have much more food and we split up whatever we found in the wagon train. We are all a team. Except for Nate Page. His son and him decide to go a bit solo. They take different trails than the group and separate often. It is not that we are not found of him and exclude him; he just chooses to go sometimes. But when the He does stay with us we do share many things with him. He has a very different mind. There are not much homesteads on the trail. Our provisions are good and we are doing very well. We are resolute to get to our next checkpoint or fort. The boys in our family sleep under the wagon and the girls sleep in the covered wagon if there is enough room, if not then they can sleep outside. We are moving quiet fast too.
while on the trail we saw beautiful things that the human eye is incredulous that it is actually seeing it. The prairie is beautiful with lush grass and few trees, it is amazing. You can see so far out into the distance and it is amazing. We find many native plants, animal, and people. Everyone is friendly so far but I think I spoke too soon.
although it has been peaceful we have had some terrible things happen. Ruby bryyant fell into the fire and had burnt hand for a long time. We also had to split up our group so Nate page and his son will go on the burial grounds while the rest of the wagon train will go on the Cheyenne river trail. We also came upon a field that had such thick grass it delayed us and we had to cut a pathway to get through.
My family and I are holding in there as you would say. sometimes we can get a little emotional like every family should after leaving their home and we also have young children that complain all the time. Honestly I could not stand it so i left for a while and talked to the wagon train about our plan. I think our family will be just fine for the time being but, no one can tell what the future may hold so we will wait. Because we can.