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Supplies Needed for a Wagon Train Trip of Two
Years
(for 3 or 4 men)
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Food Needed: |
450 # flour |
6 # tea |
125 # crackers |
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90 # sugar |
45 # coffee |
2 bushels corn |
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10 # cheese |
100 # bacon |
2 bushels cornmeal |
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30 # salt |
6 gallons vinegar |
2 bushels dried
apples |
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1 # pepper |
4 gallons molasses |
2 bushels beans |
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6 # soleratus
(baking soda) |
1 ounce peppermint |
30 # rice |
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3 bottles lemon
syrup |
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Medicines: |
5 quarts brandy |
2 # tartaric acid |
1 # epsom salts |
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1 quart liniment |
1 ounce calomel |
1 # sulfur |
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1/2 # ginger |
2 ounce ammonia |
1/2 # cayenne |
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1/2 ounce quinine |
1 pint castor oil |
2 ounces opium |
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1/2 # camphor |
3 # soda |
1 pint sweet oil |
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Other Supplies: |
3 # rough nails |
1 bottle ink, pens |
3 axes |
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Matches (in a jar) |
4 cinch pins |
3 hatchets |
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12 # lead |
1 gallon tar |
3 spades |
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10 # black powder |
1 quart turpentine |
6 augers |
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1 quart No. 6 shot |
2 water kegs |
3 hand saws |
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2000 percussion
caps |
2 frying pans |
3 cross cut saws |
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1 paper of pins |
10 # soap |
3 mallets |
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1 paper of needles |
2 sugar buckets |
4 gallon sized jugs |
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Spool of stout
linen thread |
2 camp kettles |
3 water buckets |
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Thimble |
1 coffee pot |
1 demijohn (glass
bottle) |
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Buckskin for
patching |
1 coffee mill |
3 flint stones |
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40 feet of rope |
3 tin plates |
Spoons, Forks,
Knives |
Clothing for Each Man:
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2 stout suits with
extra pants |
A dozen pair of
socks |
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5 hickory shirts |
2 wool undershirts |
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2 pair stout shoes
and boots |
2 pair drawers |
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India rubber coat |
4 handkerchiefs |
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Tent blanket |
A good stout coat |
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Brimmed hat |
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Last
modified on
May 14, 2008
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