Dear Journal,
Last week we crossed dry land. Every five hours there was a minor sandstorm and every day there were two major sandstorms. Mr. Stewart lost his wagon. He is traveling with our neighbors now.
It’s really hard to get across sandstorms. Everywhere the wind blows and dust flies. People and animals are getting sick from all the dust. Even though we are in the front of the wagon train, in our animals are getting sick too. Our wagon train always tries to continue but gets stopped by the dust. We have to stay in the wagons for most of the day. One of the days we just went through the sandstorm to make up for lost miles. Atleast the sandstorms are behind us now.
I hope we will reach Oregon without many more problems.
Anna Clark
Who writes? I do!: Anna’s Pioneer Journal: April 15, 1851
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