9^th April 1841

Hi, I'm James.I live in one of the 13 colonies with my parents and my sister, Rose. I'm 16 and she's 10. This morning my father said to us that we'll leave the East to go to the Midwest. My father want to settle on new fertile lands where we will be able to farm, to hunt and to breed animals. I don't want to leave this place and my friends but I hadn't the choice. We'll leave the East in two days.

12^th April 1841

We went away our house at 5 am. Yesterday we prepared all the stuff we'll need Covered_Wagon for the journey. But I couldn't take all I wanted, because we haven't a lot of place in our covered wagon. When we leaved the village, a lot of inhabitants said to us good bye and good luck. I was very sad to leave the land I knew but my mother consoled me when she said to me that our life will be better after the journey. I believed her and I'll try to be more happy during the journey

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13^th august 1841

Four month have passed since the start. The journey start to be boring: we always eat the same food, we always see the same view. We travel in the plain, in a dry landscape. This morning, for the first time, we saw Indians. At the beginning, they were afraid and us too. But we saw that they wasn't dangerous and I think that it was the same situation for them. Finally we met us but we couldn't speak with them because they didn't know the English. Unfortunately, we saw during the afternoon other Indians. But they wasn't Sioux, they was Pawnees. They attacked us: my sister died and my father received an arrow in his leg. All the family is very sad but we knew that the travel was dangerous. We buried my sister a beautiful plain near a river in the wilderness.

21^st October 1841

This morning we arrived where we wanted. It's a beautiful place, there is forest lac_pavin_panorama_lumineux where we can cut trees to build our new house. Near the forest there is a lake with a lot of fishes. We haven't neighbor, we are almost alone in the nature. My father have already decide how will be our house and tomorrow we start the construction. I hope that one or two family will settle near us, otherwise I will be bored. I want to have new friends.

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