Hysterical Journey To Historic Places
December 18th 2012 SARAH A. BOWMAN
Sometimes they called her The Great Western, after the steamboat. It was the biggest steamboat afloat in those days and Sarah was a hefty girl and a lusty one, but she wasn’t bigger than a steamboat. She was larger than life though. When the War with Mexico broke out in 1846 she made her sickly husband join up at Jefferson Barracks in Saint Louis and then went along
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