I thought the same thing...my family was living in Southern Illinois...but then I remembered that the river systems were major transportation routes in those days. I've never researched the issue but I'm guessing that it was a fairly expensive way to travel. It would be interesting to compare the rigors of ship board travel with those of the Oregon trail.<br>
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Carla<br>
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From: Leslie Chapman <reedsportchapmans@verizon.net><br>
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Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 9:58 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [or-roots] I Need a History Lesson<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_81f1e167-a649-4016-be41-70f6390893ef style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Carla;
I didn't include that route in my response because I figured from Missouri
it was unlikely they would have come that way. My maternal great grand
mother's family came that way, or at least their furniture did, I'm not
sure, they might have gone by the Panama route. I know some of my kin did it
that way, I found one of the relatives on some document from there. A lot of
folks that tried that crossing got sick from various thing and didn't make
it. For folks with a relative that disappeared between the east and west
coast in the good old days that is a possibility.
My maternal grand father may have come from the other direction, we don't
know all the facts, but he mentioned being in Calcutta as a seaman before he
jumped ship in California.
Les C
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There was another way that a small number of people came to
Oregon/Washington and that was by ship "around the Horn". One set of my
great-great grandparents came to Washington that way ca. 1865.
Carla
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