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Joseph H. Trego wrote from his cabin in Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, to his wife Alice in Rock Island, Illinois, about his journey from Kansas City to Sugar Mound. His friends, Thomas Ellwood Smith (Ell) and his brother Edwin (Ed), and himself were poorly prepared as they expected to stay in public houses during the journey, not camp outside as their wagon transportation preferred. As the road they took went right down the Missouri state line, Trego contrasted the well-established farms to the East with the "open, wild prairie" to the West. He and his brother, upon arriving at their cabin, found that they had "Hoosier" neighbors (from Indiana), who were pleasant but proslavery. Trego recounted the difficulty they had acquiring home furnishings and food, fighting adverse weather at every turn. He spoke at length of how he was comforted by writing to his wife, as he and his friends greatly missed their families.
Creator: Trego, Joseph H. (Joseph Harrington), 1823-1905
Date: October 16, 1857
Item Number: 5644
Call Number: Joseph Harrington Trego Coll. #523 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5644
Built Environment - Materials - Wood - Log
Business and Industry - Labor - Domestic servants
Business and Industry - Retail
Collections - Manuscript - Trego, Joseph Harrington
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities - Hunting
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Environment - Weather
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Pro-Slavery
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Home and Family - Residences - Furniture
Home and Family - Residences - Log cabins
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Trego, Joseph Harrington
Places - Cities and towns - Mound City
Places - Cities and towns - Sugar Mound
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Other States - Missouri - Jackson County - Kansas City
Places - Rivers
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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