A couple weeks ago I mentioned Fr. William Sherman’s book ‘Wagons North: Minnesota to Oregon.’ It contains, in part, diaries written by participants on a wagon train headed west through Ransom County on the northern route of the Oregon trail. The last diary entry in the book was October 12, 1867. Since then I’ve seen the entire diary. One gentleman saw the Enderlin Independent article which drew from Sherman’s book and contacted me saying he had relatives on that trek and possessed a copy of the entire diary. Would I like to see it? Well, yeah… so we met at a cafe for breakfast one morning where he loaned it to me.The entry of December 6 stated, “… about 5 o’clock just as it was growing dark we at last reached our destination, the goal for which for so many months we had been longing and yearning — PORTLAND, OREGON.” This train departed from St. Paul, MN on June 25 and stayed in Fort Ransom July 18 to 24.
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