John C. Dowdle, working as an out-and-back teamster, describes the experience of one particular young woman in his company while she was performing the task regarded as less than pleasant by many of the female emigrants: gathering buffalo chips.
Zebulon Jacobs, a young, out-and-back teamster, writes of what has been called “the only account of a snipe hunt in all of overland trail literature.” He records a prank played on a naïve English emigrant.
