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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Mosty Family History
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... of Gypsies camped there also. I showed some of them the nd and they all gathered around and went to digging. They came up with a petri ed man. Loaded him in one of their covered wagons & started a show charging a dime to see it.
We came on into Arkansas & an old nester there in the Ozarks took a fancy to one of our Percheron nags & offered us 160 acres of land for the mare. I do not know why we did not trade with him.
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Then into the Bad Lands of SE Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The indians all lived along the road and they had toll gates at every house. They were long poles hung across the road & the old indian could pull them up from inside his or her window. They would look out & count your horses, wagons, kids & dogs & charge a dime each to raise the pole & let us through.
A snow storm came & we could no longer nd the road which ...