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Children's Voices from the Trail: Narratives of the Platte River Road. By Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer. (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 2002. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50.)
      The best parts of a book based on personal writings are bound to be the quotations, as this from the diary of Ada Millington, age thirteen, on her way to California: "Friday 18th [July 1862] pretty early went over another mountain and wend down into a kanyon where we passed a great many houses where we bought a great many vegetables stopped for dinner by a stream of good water close by a mountain from which we could see Salt Lake city" (p. 45). Ada is curt, mocking the boredom of an interminable journey—"a great many houses ... a great many vegetables"— and she knows to respect "good water." A seasoned traveler, by the 18th of July. . . .
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