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Narcissa Whitman, a Protestant missionary, writes of the everyday joys and struggles that emigrants face while traveling the Oregon Trail. Life is not the same on the prairies as it was at home in Prattsburg, New York.
| Lesson 4.1: Leaving St. Louis We left St. Louis immediately after dinner. Passed many delightful residences in Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi, just as we leave the city. |
| Lesson 4.2: Down the Missouri River We are now at Jefferson City, about half way to Liberty from St. Louis. How long we stop here I do not know, perhaps all night. |
| Lesson 4.3: Above the Loup Fork River The face of the country yesterday afternoon and today has been rolling sand bluffs, mostly barren, quite unlike what our eyes have been satiated with for weeks past. |
| Lesson 4.4: Life on the Prairie Our table is the ground; our tablecloth is an India-rubber cloth used when it rains as a cloak. |
| Lesson 4.5: On the Platte River in Wyoming Husband became so completely exhausted with swimming the river on Thursday, May 9th, that it was with difficulty he made the shore the last time. |
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