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= Ackily Family Journal =


 * Independence Spring **
 * (Independence, Missouri) **
 * Mile 0.0 **
 * May 1, 1853 **

Austin / Evan We chose to fill up or water at a difrent camp site because we thought we could have more water I never thought there was mud in the water.

Amanda/Logan We all had the same fate. We were all wet, but we made it across the river safely.
 * Crossing of Blue River (Red Bridge) **
 * (South of Metropolitan, Kansas City) **
 * Mile 15.2 **
 * May 2 **


 * Observation Bluff **
 * (A ridge west of Captain Creek, Kansas) **
 * Mile 47 **
 * May 4 **

Austin / Evan evryone made the right chose and did not go up the mountin. we did not go because we thoght there might be a avilanch. but there was not a avilanch.

**Crossing of Wakarusa River** **(5 miles southeast of Lawrence, Kansas)** **Mile 54** **May 5-7** Austin/Evan We all made it across safely. No one was harmed. We crossed by building a scow and floating across.

Amanda/Logan We saw the names of kit carson and john c. freeman engraved on a rock. they were famous explores.
 * Fremont Springs **
 * (4 miles south of Diller, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 194 **
 * May 16 **

antiono/lonnie every one lived because in all the metheds we used acoal.
 * The Narrows **
 * (1.5 miles northwest of Oak, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 252 **
 * May 20 **

amanda/logan we finally reached the sod and adobe buildings. now we can restock on food and we can write back home.
 * Fort Kearny "Fort Childs" **
 * (5.5 miles south of Kearny, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 319 **
 * May 30 **

Austin\ Evan we made our first wrong dicishen. we traded four oxen for two new ones.
 * Gilman Station **
 * (8 miles west of Gothenburg, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 401 **
 * June 11` **


 * Lower (old) California Crossing **
 * (3.8 miles west of Brule, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 485 **
 * June 23 **

antono/lonnie we made it acros because we pade a french men.

amanda/logan we made it down saftly and our animals are fine.we lost our dog watch and we are hoping to find him soon.
 * Windlass Hill **
 * (Garden County near Ash Hollow, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 500 **
 * June 25 **


 * Courthouse Rock **
 * (5 miles due south of Bridgeport, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 561 **
 * June 30 **

Austin/evan we had no fire wood so we used buffulo chips ( poop) we saw court house rodk and jale rock

Austin/Evan we hope to find wathc at fort larine the soldgers took them
 * Chimney Rock **
 * (3.5 miles southwest of Bayard, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 575 **
 * July 1 **

Austin / Evan no won died we traded our extra food for not dieing
 * Horse Creek Crossing **
 * (4 miles southwest of Morril, Nebraska) **
 * Mile 615 **
 * July 6 **

antonio/lonnie
 * Fort Laramie **
 * (Goshen County, Wyoming) **
 * Mile 650 **
 * July 11 **

we bote two ocen and did not get to see whatch

antonio/ lonnie
 * Ayers Natural Bridge **
 * (12 miles west of Douglas, Wyoming) **
 * Mile 724 **
 * July 13 **

we did not go because it was a clif

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">antonio/lonnie <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">our fate was not sesesfol we dusoed to wate and hade to pay any way
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reshaw's Bridge **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(3 miles northeast of Casper, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 761 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 17 **

amanda/logan some of our oxen got losse and drank the water and is now their belly up.there was a baby that was born and her name was Grace.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">poison Spring **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Natrona County, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 777 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 18 **

amanda/logan nobody died and we made it across saftly
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Alkali Slough ate **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Natrona County, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 798 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 20 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">logan/amanda <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">me and my son chose not to eat it but my husband did
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Saleratus (Playa Lake) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(1 mile northeast of Independence Rock, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 814 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 22 **

Logan/Amanda We saw the Independence Rock and we each got to carve our names in it. It is named Independence Rock because we were hoping to get there by Independence Day so that we would be on time. We didn't get there by July 4, and we feel frustrated because we hoped to get there earlier and we're worried that we won't make it by winter.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Independence Rock **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(48 miles southwest of Casper, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 814 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 22 **

Logan/Amanda We ran into a buffalo stampede! It was kind of scary, but thankfully, none of us died because a couple of people went out on horseback and turned the stampede away from us. Our livestock got scared and ran off, but thankfully we got them all back, but we wasted a day of travelling.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Devil's Gate **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Natrona County, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 820 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 23 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ice Spring **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(9.5 miles east of Sweetwater Station, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 862 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 25 **

Evan/ Austin we thought that the ice hade posion in it because it was under the sand it was really close to the ackalcalie river and there could have been bugs

EVAN/AUSTIN we got two new oxen for singing oh susan and that is more than we started out with 5 and there was the rivers that acrose the east line the river goes east west to the line it goes west.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">South Pass **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 913 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">July 30 **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Parting of the Ways **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(9 miles northeast of Farson, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 932 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">August 1 **

Evan/Austin We choose to take fort Bridger because it seems a lot a smater than Sublette cutoff there is no water ther no grass and most of our animals whould die mabe we could have died.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fort Bridger Route **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Little Sandy Crossing **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(7 miles northeast of Farson, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 940 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">August 2 **

antio/lonnie our fate is awesome because we got to restock but it was bad because we found two missing blankets.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fort Bridger Route **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fort Bridger (Fort Bridger, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1026 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">August 8-9 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Antonio/lonnie **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">no one got a job because I was only 6 and my dad did not wont to because my mom did not want to **

antonio/lonnie our trail trail got split up for 14 days. we finally meet up and had a party!!!!!!!!!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Thomas Fork Crossing **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Rejoining the trails: Sublette Cutoff and Fort Bridger Route **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(1.2 miles west of Border, Wyoming) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1108 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">August 14 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">amanda/logan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">we got a cup of water and we got to take a bath.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Steamboat Spring **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Soda Springs, Idaho) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1154 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">August 16 **

Amanda/Logan We were happy to be able to buy stuff again! My horse died, so we bought a new one. Lorenzo wasn't happy about buying the horse, but we did it anyway because I wanted a new horse and we really needed a new one!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fort Hall **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(South of the Snake River, Idaho) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1217 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">September 4 **

Amanda/Logan We were going to turn our wagon into a ferry by taking off the wheels and top cover to allow for the wind. Because we didn't chain our wagons together, all of the wagons lost a food item. We lost our dried beef down the river.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Three Island Crossing **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Elmore County, Idaho) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1397 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">September 20 **

logan/amanda we are exited to be almost there and scared because we are going in mountains.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Farewell Bend **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Baker County, Oregon) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1551 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">September 30 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">amanda/logan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">we made it down safly. none of our animals got hurt.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ladd Canyon Hill **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Union County, Oregon) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 163 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">October 5 **

it got it's name because many vilont deaths happen there
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Deadman Pass ****<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Umatilla County, Oregon) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1671 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">October 8 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">evan/ austin **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">we are all happy because we get 200 dollars for selling our journal and we learned how **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Whitman Mission **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Walla Walla County, Washington) **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mile 1709 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">October 12 **

Evan / austin we are doing horrible we only have TWO DOLLARS! because we we spent it on trail


 * The Barlow Toll **
 * (Gate Wasco County, Oregon) **
 * Mile 1857 **
 * evan/austin **
 * I am mad that i am dead because I was so close to wala wala whatiton and lewis died aswell. and this is was my last entrry **

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