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These pioneers came in droves for the promise of gold - and from every crevice of society - farmers, blacksmiths, immigrants, teachers, thieves and soldiers, lone fortune-seekers, businessmen, and vagabond families - all unprepared and unknowing. Less than half arrived. Too many perished from starvation, disease, or at the hands of others. The remainder turned aside - broken - miles of regret crushing their hearts, their descendants forever severed from their will to discover. So begins the story of WEST: Journey Across the Plains. It's a tale of a family separated by 2,000 miles of unrelenting hardships - and it is told solely through found journal entries and letters. Miraculously, Sarah recovers three months later and there she begins her own journal. With no counsel from my family and to carry on, I borrowed sums from a Madam Floret and was signed into her servitude. I have no learning of these things. I am alone and dismayed to my deepest being. By my last count, 46 men have entered my body. I did not understand such things could be done to a woman. Though 1,000 miles apart, now the journal entries from both Johnathan Jennings and Sarah Jennings are carefully woven together. Their lives, heartaches, and triumphs spill forth on the pages - with Sarah struggling through the horror of her life and the rest of her family (mother, brother Simon at 15, twin sisters Rebecca and Deborah at 9) as they plod their way West. 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His time with the Abenaki, a local American Indian tribe, caught his imagination, as did the constant influx of merchants and traders from around the world who came to the lake through the Hudson River. He spent his youth befriending the Abenaki, participating in their rituals and even given Dark Path as his native name - very apropos to where life would lead him. Just shy of 18 years, young William took off to join the newly-formed U.S. Army, as part of the Indian Removal Act, to aid in their quest to remove southern Indians to lands father west. So starts his journey of self-discovery, the cruelties inflicted by men upon the natives and each other, him finding an Indian bride, the birth of his son, and loses which mount along his dark path. William Meeks' story is unique and unsung. His travels find him engaged in The Trail of Tears, the war to free Texas from Mexico, riding with and befriending Kit Carson in the mapping of the Oregon Trail and hunting forays, the forming of California statehood, the start of the gold rush, his involvement in the Civil War - and much more. Most significantly though, are his 18 months in the employ of Sarah Jennings (WEST: Journey Across the Plains) in her search for what remained of her family who went west without her in 1849. Traveling with his half-breed son, Waiting Hawk, their quest to help the Sarah provides additional grist and heartache for Meeks' epic story. These are men who do not quit or shirk in the face of danger. 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