Word: oxen
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...England, emigrated to a promised land where the best he could do was to farm enough to keep his growing family alive. He planted a herring with his crops because the Indians did-and it seemed to help them grow. But it never occurred to him that his oxen's manure would make better fertilizer. He refused to use a metal plow because he thought iron poisoned the soil...
...moment another detachment of prisoners passed on the street. "I lowered my head so that they wouldn't recognize me and I looked at their shoes, their wooden shoes, their torn trousers . . . these belonged to Jacques, these to Martin, these to Louis, dragging snow behind their weary steps; oxen driven back to the stables ... my own companions whom I was abandoning...
...Library of Congress asked Gertrude Atherton, 85, rejuvenated novelist (Black Oxen, 38 other books), for a bale of her manuscripts. She sent them...
...from the time they were driven from Illinois. The flight from Nauvoo ("The city of the Lord God Jehovah King of Kings. ... In February, 1846, it was fallen-that great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped them on the Iowa shore and turned back for other, identical freights-American refugees fleeing a city under threat from an enemy...
...Possibly the most horrible episode was discovered by the Fourth Relief. Lewis Keseberg, a German, had been left by his own request in the camp with Tamsen Donner and her dying husband. The Fourth Relief found a kettle full of pieces of George Donner, but there were legs of oxen which were lying around uneaten. Keseberg avoided the rescuers. He had long been suspected of stealing from the other members of the party. At last the rescuers cornered him "lying down amidst the human bones, and beside him a large pan full of fresh liver and lights...