"You're not weakening?
Haven't you as much courage as those Mormon women on ahead?
Some of them pushing carts, I've heard." "They've done it for religion, Jess.

Oregon ain't no religion for me." "Yet it has music for a man's ears, Molly." "Hush! I've heard it all for the last two years.

What happened to the Donners two years back?
And four years ago it was the Applegates left home in old Missouri to move to Oregon.

Who will ever know where their bones are laid?
Look at our land we left--rich--black and rich as any in the world.

What corn, what wheat--why, everything grew well in Illinois!" "Yes, and cholera below us wiping out the people, and the trouble over slave-holding working up the river more and more, and the sun blazing in the summer, while in the wintertime we froze!" "Well, as for food, we never saw any part of Kentucky with half so much grass.