An overland settler party (including the Carr and Pierce families) arrived at their new home on the prairie after a thirty-four-day winter journey.

The evidence

• “Newhall's log cabin was in sight as they struck into the wild oak opening, nor was there another shanty until they came out onto Prairie Du Lac, where, standing out alone on the cold, bleak prairie, the little red oak pioneer cabin stood where it still stands today. Here they arrived March 4, 1839, after an overland winter's journey of thirty-four days. In this little 16x20 building they lived with Pierce, a family of thirteen, and kept the store”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 448 / book p. 937

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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