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Forty Niner's Buffalo Hunt Diary on the California Trail
William B. Ogle recounts a buffalo hunt and travel along the California route in May 1850. He describes muddy roads, camp life, cattle theft rumors, Indian threats, weather, distant settlements, and encounters with Cheyenne and Pawnee during a rough twenty to twenty five mile day.
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William B. Ogle
California
Mr. Ogle
The
Union
Little Blue
Gordon B. Coffeen
Brookfield
Sullivan County
Tils
Robert Malone
St. Joe
Oregon
Blue River
Hale
Montgomery Young
Montgomery
Arkansas