Excerpt from In the Rocky Mountains Family history - MY father, once A captain IN the british army comes TO america and marries uncle jeff's sister - HE settles ON A farm IN ohio - clarice and I are born - MY grandfather's farm destroyed BY A flood - the next year our farm IS burnt MY father resolves TO migrate TO the west - WE set off IN waggons with AN emigrant train - prosperous oommen cement OF J ourn EY provisions run short - I witness A buffalo hunt - the emigrants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.