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Pioneer Forsdick recalls crossing plains after Ezra Meeker
Sidney’s pioneer Stephen Forsdick recounts his 1835 birth in Watford England and a 1850s trek to Salt Lake City with a Mormon train. He describes wagon trains, ferry crossings, Fort Bridger, and the Oregon and Mormon trails, plus his marriage to a western sweetheart and later life in Sidney Nebraska.
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Ezra Meeker
Plains
Sidney
Mr. Meeker
Mr. Forsdick
Hl. S. Freytag
North Platte River
South Platte
Julesburg
Colorado
North Platte
Kaw River
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Mollie Wingate
Oregon Trail
Chimney Rock
Scotts Bluff
Independence Rock
the Devil's Gate
South Pass
Jim Fridger
Jim Bridge
Ft. Bridger
Stephen Forsdick
Watford
England
Salt Lake City
Liverpool
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Iowa
Keokule
Council Bluffs
Missouri River
Lone Tree Ferry
Fort Laramie
Hind Axle
Echo Canon
Capt. Gates
Platte
God's Country
Salt Lake
Ft. Laramie
Sutler
Utah
Fort