......John Henry's Past Revisited...continued...........

       When  John Henry and his family left upper New York State, bound for the new life out West, Henry was just a youngster ready and willing to find out more in life, then what he had  there in New York, with his Mother and Father. Don't get me wrong, as far as I knew, he had loved his parents as much as any other child. But Henry was different, he needed adventure and excitement, even at his age. I guess that's what drew us together so many years later.
     
     Now bound for the West he would find those things and many more that no one could tell you or would tell you, if they did  had experienced just part of what he was about to find in that new land they were about to discover.

     After just leaving their home State of New York, Pennsylvania was about to leave them a new feeling of wonderment. Such rolling hills, and green pastures abound. It took them only a few miles to have second  thoughts about where their lives should be headed.
   Non-the-less, they moved on, knowing that what they had dreamed of was just around the bend, and over the next hill. Both that hill and that bend, as they moved on were getting further and further away from them.
    
    Leaving behind such a large of a state as that, they were now concerned about their provisions. Knowing that they had just begone a trip so large, that  Henry's parents' started to show self doubt. It was in their speech, and in their stature. Henry could see it now, but he wasn't about to let them fail the mission. He began hunting more, and honing skills that only a weathered Frontiersman could accomplish. His father was proud of what he saw develop in his now grown boy.
    
    Soon they would come upon the mighty Mississippi. Once they did, they stopped for a longer camp stay than any of the earlier ones that they did previously to get to this point. They only spent a day at the most before, knowing the ground they had top cover.
    As Henry's parents' started the process of making camp, Henry went out in the woods to explore the surroundings that would be their living quarters for a stay that none of them had ever experienced, and soon they would find out just how much.....