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Pony Soldier RV Park, Lingle WY

Morning at Pony Soldier RV Park, May 5, 2011
Morning at Pony Soldier RV Park, May 5, 2011

Pony Soldier RV Park is a small, no frills, friendly, full service, mom & pop RV park on US 26 east of historic Fort Laramie WY.

Pony Soldier RV Park, Lingle WY

Nights I've camped here

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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