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The Oregon Trail and the Days of '49 : Authentic Recipes from the Gold Camps and The Pioneers West
The Oregon Trail and the Days of '49 Authentic Recipes from the Gold Camps and The Pioneers West Author:Janet Gray Those were exciting days, those days of '49. Golden nuggets would glitter in someone's gold pan and another Forty-nine would have more wealth than he could ever have imagined. It was the dream that kept them going. The reality was something different. The days in the gold fields were long and back-breaking. A few found their fortunes;m... more »any more made just enough to afford a little bacon and flour. And there were many who lost everything they had in their mad search for the elusive riches that lay just over the next hill. There were others on the Oregon Trail who weren't looking for gold. They wanted land, land of their own. They would take their families with them to the fertile land in Oregon. There, they would plant orchards and grow crops and they, too, would find the things they were looking for. (An Advertisement from the Gold Camps)