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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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