Don Wildman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yes, I'm sure.
Here's another diary entry.
I want to read this one.
This is a year later than the last one, 1853, by a girl named Amelia Stuart Knight.
And it just mentions the weather factor that you brought up.
Saturday, April 23rd.
Still in camp, it rained hard all night and blew a hurricane almost.
All the tents were blown down.
Some of the wagons capsized.
Evening.
It has been raining here all day.
Everything is wet and muddy.
One of the oxen missing.
The boys have been hunting for him all day.
Dreary times, wet and muddy and crowded in the tent, cold and wet and uncomfortable in the wagon.
No place for the poor children.
I have been busy cooking, roasting coffee, etc.
Today I have come into the wagon to write this and make our bed.
Oh my God, it sounds like the worst day of camping in my life.
Yes.