
Overland Trail
in Nebraska in 1852
Table of Contents

| Testimonials | v |
| Introduction | xi |
| CHAPTER 1 -- Setting up Altars of Remembrance, | 13 |
| CHAPTER II -- "God Could Not Be Everywhere, and so He Made Mothers," | 23 |
| CHAPTER III -- "But Somewhere the Master Has a Counterpart of Each," | 32 |
| CHAPTER IV -- Our Prairies are a Book Whose Pages Hold Many Stories, | 41 |
| CHAPTER V -- A Worthy Object Reached For and Missed is a First Step Toward Success, | 51 |
| CHAPTER VI -- "'Tis Only a Snowbank's Tears, I Ween," | 58 |
| CHAPTER VII -- We Stepped Over the Ridge and Courted the Favor of New and Untried Waters, | 67 |
| CHAPTER VIII -- We Had No Flag to Unfurl, but Its Sentiment Was Within Us, | 77 |
| CHAPTER IX -- We Listened to Each Other's Rehearsals, and Became Mutual Sympathizers and Encouragers, | 87 |
| CHAPTER X -- Boots and Saddles Call, | 98 |
| Chapter XI -- " But All Comes Right in the End," | 108 |
| CHAPTER XII -- Each Day Makes Its Own Paragraphs and Punctuation Marks, | 123 |
| Book Index | *** |

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