Notre pays en histoire . ment à condition qu'aurait à payer leurs dettes de guerre avec l'argent à venir infrom la vente des terres de l'ouest. Peu de parties d'émigrants faisaient leur v/aywestward à travers l'Alleghany Mountains. À pied, andhorseback avec chevaux de bât, charrettes à bras, et wheelbarrowsthey est allé. Imaginons l'une de ces parties de déménageurs.Sur le premier cheval rode la mère avec le bébé. Abouther étaient remplis de toutes sortes de biens ménagers. Cheval a effectué une deuxième eatables et diverses activités agricoles uten-sils. Le troisième portait un rude berceau dans chaque fin de l'assise qui a été un enfant tellement enfouie dans couverture

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Our country in story . ment on condition thatit would pay their war debts with the money coming infrom the sale of the western land. Soon parties of emigrants were making their v/aywestward across the Alleghany Mountains. On foot andhorseback, with packhorses, handcarts, and wheelbarrowsthey went. Let us imagine one such party of movers.On the first horse rode the mother with the baby. Abouther were packed all sorts of household belongings. Asecond horse carried eatables and various farming uten-sils. The third bore a rude cradle in each end of whichwas seated a child so buried in bedclothing that only thehead could be seen. Following the train came the father WEST TO THE MISSISSIPPI 249 and several of the older children, driving the cattle. Ifa horse happened to pass too close to the edge of aprecipice, it fell hundreds of feet into the chasm below.Whole bands of settlers also moved westward by wayof the Ohio River, coming down the stream from Pitts-burgh on flatboats heavy with cattle and household goods.. A PACKHORSE TRAIN CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS They settled on the Ohio and Mississippi, where theycleared away the forests and built home for themselves.By and by small villages and towns grew up. Yet thiswestern country was being settled but slowly. It wastoo far away from the seaboard cities and towns. Travel-ing and moving on foot and on horseback across themountains were difficult ventures. People of those daysspoke of going into and coming out of the West asif it were a mighty cave or canyon. It was the dangerof not getting there alive, rather than even the difficultand dangerous living in the wild country, that kept thepeople from emigrating to it. 250 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY At about this period of our history, our illustriousstatesman, Henry Clay, was one day traveling in hischaise along the road leading to the city of Wheeling inWest Virginia. While fording a small stream nearBrownsville, Pennsylvania, his carriage overturned. Whenhe struggled to his feet and l

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