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- Narrator: We left Illinois on the 15th day of May, 1849.
We moved by team with covered wagon, and drove our stock,
crossing the Wisconsin River on a flatboat at Sauk.
That was the first flatboat I ever saw,
and I was very much frightened at the idea of crossing.
I thought this was a bad-looking country.
The farther west we came, the worse it looked.
When we came by Devil's Lake over the rocks and hills,
I said, "Turn around and go back.
I have seen all I want to of this country."
They told me that was nothing.
It was not half as bad as I would see.
But I found that was a mistake.
Mrs. Mary Carpenter.
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