There were numbers of young children, many of them in arms, who became ill.
For one or other cause, wagons continually were dropping out.

It was difficult for some wagons to keep up, the unseasoned oxen showing distress under loads too heavy for their draft.

It was by no means a solid and compact army, after all, this west-bound wave of the first men with plows.

All these things sat heavily on the soul of Jesse Wingate, who daily grew more morose and grim.
As the train advanced bands of antelope began to appear.

The striped prairie gophers gave place to the villages of countless barking prairie dogs, curious to the eyes of the newcomers.