Word: milch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wagon train would stop for a few hours. They were not the sort of people to die on the trail, and amazingly few did. In fact, the skeletons that are strewn all over the emigrants' path in Stewart's book are almost entirely the remains of oxen, milch cows, and Hollywood scriptwriters. Indians, he says, "were a minor nuisance, not a real hazard." A wagon trail to California was first attempted in 1841, and new tries were made each year, but no white traveler was killed by an Indian until...