Charles Henry John West Recalling His Memories Traveling Across the U.S. (Annie West Neville's father)

Charles Henry John West, recalling his memorable journey across the States, implied that after a rough train ride, the boat ride up the Missouri was not much better:

We traveled by cars day and night for seven days. On account of the Civil War going on we had to rough it, traveling part of the time crowded in sheep cars. They said they were afraid of their good cars being burned by the Confederates.  We took a steamer up the Missouri River.... It was a flatboat and  we were very crowded.

Charles Henry John West, "Reminiscences," in An Enduring Legacy, comp. Lesson
Committee, 12 vols. (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1977-89), 5:241-42.