Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman

Song Cycle by Alan Louis Smith

1. The allure of the West

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2. Prologue to the journal
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...We knew nothing of frontier life, nor how to prepare for it. And
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3. There's a lady ‑‑ Monday, April 1
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...whenever we stopped, even to water the horses, there would be
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4. Considerable excitement ‑‑ Saturday, April 6
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...We found considerable excitement prevailing over the report that a
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5. The face of the earth ‑‑ Tuesday, May 14
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We were safely across the wide and muddy-colored stream by eleven
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6. Buffalo chase ‑‑ Wednesday, May 22
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After we had started this morning, there was great excitement over a
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7. The Sioux tribe and the "White Squaw" ‑‑ Monday, June 3
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We traveled ten miles to-day and stopped on good grass. In the
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8. Lost boy ‑‑ Saturday, July 27
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...Our boy Robert took up a horse near the road, it having the
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9. Upon them she depended ‑‑ Tuesday, August 27
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...At noon we stopped in the cañon and took our lunch. Here we
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10. The mountain ‑‑ Friday, August 30
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After traveling one mile from the edge of the lake, we came to the
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11. Margaret's dream

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12. Here we are ‑‑ Saturday, September 7
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During the last eight days of the journey, we had descended, in
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13. Epilogue to the journal
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...We had traversed the continent, from the far east to the farthest
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