--Both yearned for adventure, neither sought romance...
funny how things work out.
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- when they first met in St. Joseph, Mo
--a major "jumping off" site to the California Trail
- her near death experience
--cholera seized her in its demonic grip
- following the serpentine path of the Platt River
--"bad to ford, destitute of fish, too dirty  
to bathe in and too thick to drink"
- the depressing number of trailside grave markers
--hungry wolves had rooted up shallow-buried bodies
- thousands of buffalo, a culinary godsend for Argonauts
--some claimed that fueling the cooking fire with buffalo chips,
"improved the aroma of the coffee"
- tossing out heavy cargo to lighten the load
--it broke Joshua's heart to abandon his
genuine Leavenworth patented gold washer
- scaling to the top of the Rockies
--good news: almost half-way to Sacramento;
bad news: over a 1,000 miles to go
- ...and more!
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