Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:25:52 -0500 (EST)
From: mady dhaene aubifoin(a)yahoo.ca
Reading the memoirs of John Frederick Fellwock - (15 pages)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
from Brandenburg, Germany to Wisconsin and Illinois,
and especially those of Hermann Heinrich Bohnen - (21 pages)
http://members.aol.com/sycophant4/bohn1843.htm
from Hanover, Germany to Cleveland, Ohio
will give you description of how such overland travel was undertaken.
As well, of course, as about the ship's voyage. Quite awesome. Mady..