Author: P.W. Crawford
Soft cover
93 pages
 
Book Description
"Now leaving all settlements, all civilization and emerging into the Indian Country. The sensation to a man or woman of a family must have been one of distrust- comingled with a hope and trust of reaching a para-disal home in the far west, six or eight months roaming through savage plains and artimis'a dust- but the young blossom little knows the many scorching sunbeams, the many frosty nights, the many severe blasts it is going to be explosed to, but taking its place side and side with the many neighboring flowers- it stands the storms and is fed and nurished by those providintial elements, the gentle dew and mild rain, the moistening showers, and warmed by the glowing sun shine until bursting forth into life and vigour and is then found as the fragrant blooming bulky hardy rose. So with the early pioneer who crossed the plains in 1847." - P.W. Crawford, 1847 emigrant.