Excerpt from Cam Clarke There were some thousands of other people who came West the same way at the same late day, but I doubt if many were as poorly equipped or as ignorant of conditions and methods as we. I hope none were. We were a large family of small children, my mother was delicate, we were short of money, our live stock was poor, even when we started, and my father was not a plainsman. He was not even a practical farmer or horseman but a cobbler and, in strict hon esty, I confess, he was not a very good cobbler. ...
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Excerpt from Cam Clarke There were some thousands of other people who came West the same way at the same late day, but I doubt if many were as poorly equipped or as ignorant of conditions and methods as we. I hope none were. We were a large family of small children, my mother was delicate, we were short of money, our live stock was poor, even when we started, and my father was not a plainsman. He was not even a practical farmer or horseman but a cobbler and, in strict hon esty, I confess, he was not a very good cobbler. But he was spirited and determined and stubborn and healthy and he was not afraid even of his youngest daughter that is, not so much afraid as some fathers. We started from Dubuque, Iowa, early in spring. I do not remember much of the trip, just spots here and there: a wild thunder storm on the prairie at night, father staggering back to camp drunk from the saloons of some frontier town and his children running out to tantalise him as picadores tantalise a bull. We were not very much afraid of the poor man even when he was drunk and we were not shocked at all, for we had too often seen him in that condition before. At some stage of the transaction my mother, who was a stooped, slender woman, Would turn away from the whole wild lot of us, hus band and children, With so desolate a face that we would desist. My father when sober was a strange, shrivelled, ignorant but kindly and bright-eyed little Irishman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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