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143. Ibid.
144. Burton ]. Williams, ed., "Overland to the Gold Fields of California in
I 8 50:The Journal of Calvin T a ylor," Nebraska History 50 (1969): 142.
145. Buecker, "Letters of Caroline Frey Winne," 6; Howard Egan, Pioneering
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the ffist, 1846 to 1878 (Richmond, Utah: Howard R. Egan Estate, 1917 :
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146. Mary Butler Renville, A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity
(Minneapolis:Atlas Co., 1863), 43; Mary Jane Caples, "Overland Journey
to California" (I9II), California State Library, Sacramento; EleanorTaylor,
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"Ross Kin: Early Settlers of the W e st" 1 978), Bancroft Library, Berkeley,
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Calif.; Rogers, "Iowa W o man in W a rtime," pt. , 525, 534; Eliza Spalding
W a rren, Memoirs of the ffist: The S p aldings (Portland, Oreg.: March
Printing, 1916), 177; E. Allene Dunham, "Across the Plains in a Covered
W a gon" (n.d.), Graff Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.; Nancy
N. Tracy, "Narrative" (1880), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; and Ruth
Peterson, comp., "Across the Plains in ' 57" (1931), California State Library,
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147. Douglas C. Comer, Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, W o rld Formation and the
Annexation of the Southwest (Los Angeles: University of California Press,
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1996), 120-22, 219-23; Patricia Seed, American Pentimento T he Invention of
Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2001), 2-9; and William G. Robbins, Colony and Empire: The
Capitalist Transformation of the American ffist (Lawrence; University Press
of Kansas, 1994).
148. Cleaveland, No Lifefor a Lady, 38; Roger, "Iowa W o man in W a rtime," pt.
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149. Jacob H. Schiel, Journey through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt
Mountains to the Pacific Ocean (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1959), 97; and Harlan, "Diary of Wilson Barber Harlan," 153.
150. W a lker D.Wyman, ed., California Emigrant Letters (New o rk: Bookman
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151. Porter, By Ox-Team to California, 36-37.
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153. Purcell, "Autobiography and Reminiscence."
154. R. Douglas Hurt, The Indian Frontier, 7 63-1846 (Albuquerque: University
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of New Mexico Press, 2002), 191-223. For examples, see Klasner, My
Girlhood among Outlaws, 34-3 , 73-77;White, Frontier Mother, 34-35; Dora
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