
Reprinted from The Tombstone Epitaph, The Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio), and The Bridgeport News-Blade (Bridgeport, Nebraska).


As a result, the types of weaponry varied considerably. Most adult male members of a wagon train armed themselves with those weapons most readily available. And that association is firmly grounded in fact.

Travel on the road west is, in the popular mind, inextricably associated with the possession of firearms.
