Civilization in the Wilderness
A Tale of Adventure on the American Frontier
Read Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen.
Chapter Fifteen
They spent many weeks crossing the plains. During that time, their food stores grew low again. Occasionally, they met with plains natives, but most weeks they were entirely alone. Occasionally, Sagamore said they were being watched, but nobody ever attacked them.
The weather was turning cold again when they reached what Captain Edwards said was the Continental Divide. After many weeks on the plains, it was a relief to see the mountains looming up out of the ground. A sense of foreboding had crept upon their party in those lonely places on the plains. The emptiness and the dark days, even in summer, had worn them down. Daniel said there was nothing half so forlorn that he’d seen in all the world as those plains in the dead of high summer on a dark day with no rain.