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English
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A Trip Across the Continent
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Covered Wagon Women
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Glendale, Calif.
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Arthur H. Clark
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117-168
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13 April 1852 to 14 August 1852, with brief entries on 1 January 1863 and 1 January 1864. Cummings and her husband, William, Father and others leave Plainfield, Illinois for California. She changes to wearing bloomers to cope with the mud. She gives excellent descriptions of the small villages they pass through, including Carthage, Illinois. She describes Adam's grave, as revealed to Joseph Smith and calls Ft. Kearny only a miserable log hut and pack house. Cummings observes thirteen Sioux attack and rout 150 Pawnees. The group crosses the Platte River. They reach Chimney Rock and Ft. Laramie. She writes that Jim Bridger is much of a gentleman but lives like a hog, then she stops at Salt Lake City, and writes particularly about polygamy, being ill disposed towards the institution. Continuing on, Cummings gets sick as they follow the Humboldt River. They meet Piute Indians and reach the Sierra Nevada Mountains.