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House Burned
Angry debt collectors burned down my house because of my brothers unpaid debts. -
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Jason Kelly
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Left Ireland
I left ireland to try and get away from the debt collectors hot on my heels. I heard that land was cheap and easy in America. Lets hope thats true... -
Land In America
I landed in America and got off of the packed steerage cabins into the swarm of bodies headed for screeing at Ellis Island. They prodded me with weird instruments and treated us a wee bit like cattle being searched for disease. I was asked a bunch of questions by a strange woman and it seemed like she was satisfied when they took me to the doors out of the island and right back into another boat . I landed in New York and have f secured lodgings in a cramped apartment building with dirty water. -
Found Job
I found a job at a factory with its own lodgings. I gathered my few possesions and moved in immediately. The pay is a little under fair, but what can I expect being an irish immigrant. Some of the other men sneer and call me dough-boy, and i recieve less pay than some of the native born workers. -
Attacked by Drunkards
I was heading home from work one morning and some drunk Americans lurched out of an alley. They shouted obsceneties at me and insulted me in any way they found possible. When I told them to leave me alone things got violent. I now nurse a broken nose and quit a few bruses. -
Set Off For The West
I had saved enough to buy supplies and a wagon for the journey west that I've been planning for so long now.I said good-bye to the lads and went off on the next adventure. -
Found Natives
My small convoy had joined a larger convoy and we were a couple weeks from Utah when i witnessed a sight it pains me to reccount. A never ending column of Natives was winding its way parrallel to our convoy. There were mothers huging their wailing children, barely containing their own tears. The men were walking, steel faced and defiant, making no move to stem the blood flow from their naked feet. One of the older ones collapsed righ in front of me and didnt get up. I slipped the new orphan corn -
Arrived At Oregon
After a grueling 5-month long journey, I made it to the western lands! I have secured some very temporary lodgings in a small tenement. It smells of dead things and I think theres a cat in the wall, but after sleeping in a wagon for 5 months, I'll take anything and grin. -
I Get Kicked Out
I was kicked out of the tenement after the landlords wife found out I was irish. She barely gave me time to gather my savings and clothes before she drove me from the very door waving a metal pan and threatening me never to come back. For now, I am homeless. -
Land Giveaway
The state declared a race for the land given to it by the Morill Land-Grant Act. I walked to the starting line and bought a good reliable horse and got myself ready for the race. I just hope all goes well at the race tomorrow -
Gain Land
I enetered the race and lined up with the rest of the competators at the starting line. at the cracking sound of the canon i was off like a shot. The horse I was riding ran faster than I thought it could. I quicklly found a good tract of land and I dived from my horse, driving my flag into the ground just as another bloke came at me with his whip. we tossed and tumbled but eventually he left me and my new land alone. Unfortunately the faithful horse died that very night. I buried him graciously.
