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Produced by Al Haines





[Frontispiece: He gathered her in his arms, and bending low carried her
back into the darkened cavern.]



THE EMIGRANT TRAIL

BY
GERALDINE BONNER


NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS


COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DUFFIELD & COMPANY

Published, April, 1910


CONTENTS

PART I
THE PRAIRIE

PART II
THE RIVER

PART III
THE MOUNTAINS

PART IV
THE DESERT

PART V
THE PROMISED LAND


THE EMIGRANT TRAIL

PART I
The Prairie

CHAPTER I
It had rained steadily for three days, the straight, relentless rain of
early May on the Missouri frontier. The emigrants, whose hooded wagons
had been rolling into Independence for the past month and whose tents
gleamed through the spring foliage, lounged about in one another's
camps cursing the weather and swapping bits of useful information.
The year was 1848 and the great California emigration was still twelve
months distant. The flakes of gold had already been found in the race
of Sutter's mill, and the thin scattering of men, which made the
population of California, had left their plows in the furrow and their
ships in the cove and gone to the yellow rivers that drain the Sierra's
mighty flanks.
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