Supply List for a Wagon Train Journey

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• 150 pounds of flour
  
• 25 pounds of bacon
  
• 10 pounds of rice
  
• 15 pounds of coffee
  
• 2 pounds of tea
  
• 25 pounds of sugar
  
• ½ bushel dried peas
  
• ½ bushel dried fruit
  
• 2 pounds soleratus (baking soda)
  
• 10 pounds salt
  
• ½ bushel corn meal
  
• ½ small keg vinegar
  
• pepper
  

CLOTHING PER PERSON

• 2 wool shirts
  
• 2 wool undershirts
  Women
  
• 2 wool dresses
  Both
  
• 2 pair drawers
  
• 4 pair wool socks
  
• 2 pair cotton socks
  
• 4 colored handkerchiefs
  
• 1 pair boots and shoes
  
• poncho
  
• broad rimmed hat
  

MISCELLANEOUS PER FAMILY

• rifle, ball & powder
  
• 9-10 gallon keg for water
  
• 1 axe
  
• 1 hatchet
  
• 1 spade
  
• 2 or 3 augers
  
• 1 hand saw
  
• 1 whip or cross-cut saw
  
• 1 plow mold
  
• at least 2 ropes
  
• mallet for driving picket pins
  
• matches carried in bottles, corked
  

SEWING SUPPLIES (placed in buckskin or stout cloth bag)

• stout linen thread
  
• large needles
  
• thimble
  
• bit of bee's wax
  
• few buttons
  
• buckskin for patching
  
• paper of pins
  

PERSONAL ITEMS

• 1 comb and brush
  
• 2 toothbrushes
  
• 1 pound castile soap
  
• 1 belt knife
  
• 1 flint stone
  

COOKING IMPLEMENTS

• baking pan (used for baking and roasting coffee)
  
• mess pan, wrought iron or tin
  
• 2 churns one for sweet, one for sour milk
  
• 1 coffee pot
  
• per person
  
• 1 tin cup with handle
  
• 1 tin plate
  
• knives, forks & spoons
  
• 1 coffee mill
  
• 1 camp kettle
  
• fry pan
  
• wooden bucket for water
  

BEDDING PER PERSON

• 1 canvas
  
• 2 blankets
  
• 1 pillow
  
• one tent per family
  

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

• Iron Rust
  
• Rum and Cognac (Both for Dysentery)
  
• Calomel
  
• Quinine for Aque
  
• Epsom Salts for Fever
  
• Castor Oil
  

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First seen by me at [e-mail] as shared by Shirley Larson on 26 April 1999
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