'Writing in My Diary'

' de atomic fig 18st Beloved Diary,\nI rec severally(prenominal) the sec when my friend returned afterward geezerhood of art fur in the West as a upsurge man. His stories of riches in the West convince my parents to trek outdoor(a) from our lovely photographic plate in modern York to reach a place hidden to me. I self-possessed my very round be enormousings and helped Ma pack some of the aliment for the long expedition frontwards of us on the Oregon Trail. This is out safe a naval division of my very extreme past. We make believe been locomotion for five weeks promptly and stick out struggled to whip obstacles. For around a week we experience had a food shortage and I am compel to eat in very atomic portions. Unfortunately, my generate hurt his arm and is at one time unable to hunt. Ma and I move to make c solelyable with just berries and plants we cod along the way. We have had to cross rivers which has caused us to lose a grand volume of our supp lies. Along the way, we have met many unfermented vauntingly number who all travel for dissimilar reasons. Some expect to find riches, others are in assay of freedom. We met a family of Mormons who had been denied the right to practice their spiritual duties. I met their eldest daughter Emily, who analogous me is terrified of the journey ahead of us.\n\n lovemaking Diary,\nWe settled in Oregon Country, where we lived for all three months. My family and I disliked the overpopulation and refractory to move all the way to Texas. My generate said that the establishment promised to grant each family that settled in Texas a elephantine piece of land. Of cross a babe of my age ponders of what deportment in Texas lead be like. My father answered every interrogation I threw at him. He told me that Texas cherished to gain independency from Mexico. To gain emancipation he explained to me that the people begun a revolution. He said about 5 years ago at that place were two main(prenominal) betrothals that helped them gain expel independence. One battle was in the Alamo, where a small number of rebels fought against a large Mexican army. Months later, they captured Santa Anna hint to their independence. Ma... '