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Emigrant Travel Marker
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 26, 2017
Caption: Emigrant Travel Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) With the exception of young children, the elderly, and the ill, emigrants typically walked or road on horseback alongside the wagons.; (bottom right) The journey across the "Great American Desert" took five months, averaging twelve miles a day. (The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years by Ezra Meeker)
Submitted: November 16, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p404215
File Size: 3.354 Megabytes

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