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"I will start with my family to the Oregon Territory this spring. Lindsay and perhaps Charles go with me. This resolution has been conceived and matured in a very short time, but it is probably destiny to which account I place it, having neither time nor good reasons to offer in defense of so wild an undertaking. We are well, and I only snatch this opportunity to write to you for this purpose of ascertaining if the same species of madness exists on your side of the Missouri."
Letter from Jesse Applegate to his brother Lisbon in April 1843.
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