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Escape From LexingtonChapter 8
Wednesday May 31, 1843 The last seven weeks have been encouraging and rewarding--and very exhausting. The two men from the trading post were a huge help. Mr. Chouteau came by a week after we arrived to get a better idea of what we intended to plant. When he offered to let us hire two of his men now and a third one starting in July, I jumped at the offer. Personally, I think he was trying to ingratiate himself with us so we wouldn’t sell our goods to Fort Platte. He was in luck, because we...