Nate Page April 13, 1854

Dear diary,
                  My wagon train and i have gotten along together very well no arguments or fight broke out while i was with them. I broke off of my wagon train to go on a faster but dangerous path. The wild oxen here have eaten a lot every piece of grace is trimmed perfectly short with leaving no food for my animals good thing i brought lots of food for  all my animals. A while back we accidentally made a brush fire and had to high tale it of there it was spreading every where the blazing hot orange flame running across the plains trying to catch us. We have made many accidents along the way we even had a wagon train member fall into the fire when they were trying to cook dinner there hand where blistered like crazy bumps all over but thankfully we hada doctor in our train Dr.Dan helped that wagon member out she's fine now. I am now on a path that goes over indians sacred burial ground and The Native Americans here are said to be very hostile hope fully we will not be attacked as we our going over the burial grounds. Its just me and my son now on this dangerous trail it gets a little lonely out here by our selves. We sometimes think if we brought everything we needed of course we forgot some things but we forgot a family heirloom thats been bothering us for a while. I brought lots of water thankfully because there is barely any water on the trail my son and I are on, and thankfully its still potable. My son thinks this was a bad decision going on this perilous trail alone. My son james and I eat Bacon in the morning and dried beef in the evening sometimes i wonder if i brought enough food. Our sleeping habits aren't the bast and aren't the worst. Our dogs though they bark very loud at the coyotes at night i am thinking about tying their mouthes closed with rope next time. The prairie is plain not a single tree the grass is short where there is any and its fairly warm every day and as cold as ice in the night.