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Prentice: Chapter 7 There was a bounty on their heads, but so what? Seven Conestoga wagons set forth from New Hampshire, led by Franklin Prentice, seven families of English stock, descended from early colonialists. The horse-drawn wagons poked along, bounced side-to-side, buffeted by a trail rutted by rain and by previous wagon trains, a deer path glorified. Prentice and his followers were the latest to venture west. From summits, mountain men could peer down and scoff at ...