Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 05, 2011

Far out.

There’s “horseless carriage” and there’s “horse-less carriage”…

Relax. Bob’s wife is there for this stretch of the journey. ;-)

To think that California got started with westward-ho wagons!

Just a little trip through a place called ‘Death Valley’. Say ‘hi’ to the Donners on you way there.

The Mormons actually migrated to Utah pulling handcarts that looked just like that.

Donner Pass is nowhere near Death Valley, Gerbilonawheel… and yes, you could get to Cali on a boat. San Francisco was a major port in the 19th c. Still is today.

There WERE a lot of handcarts on the pioneering trail. Do a little research…and, yeah, it must have been tough. Any one woman…or man, sometimes both…who made it to the West and onto the plains, as the Mormons frequently did that way…would be easily able to rip any of their fat, pastly, lazy, demanding, unfulfilled, small-minded sub-human Limbaugh-listening disssatisfied descendants…a new orfice.

Yeah: let’s all have a good laugh at people truly better than we are…

lololololololol, there is that good?

Death is near.

With the economic situation the way it is in Nevada, He’s better off where he is !

Way far out!

Should be "stopped bragging about the environmentally-friendly benefits of his… " Cause that’s where we’re headed….

All he needed to do was make it to vegas and he could amass a fortune in the tourist industry in 100-150 yrs.

Bob gets his just deserts……

“This ain’t California…. It must be Bust”

Otherwise known as the handcart, which was cheaper to obtain then the actual wagon. This is why they were used.

hey, looky looky! it’s the GOP prospects for 2012! XD

Is this a swipe at the Mormon’s hand cart journey from Missouri to Utah 150 years ago?

Someone wise once told me that if you have a tent, you’ll never be homeless. This could be a tent, if you propped it up on something.

Some of the gold rushers used handcarts. Brigham Young felt that if the gold rushers could make it to California using handcarts for the sake of thier god, the Mormons could make it to the Salt Lake Valley using handcarts for the sake of theirs.

Is he headed east at sunrise, or west at sunset? I hope it’s west at sunset . . . .

If he’s anywhere near the Ponderosa, maybe he could get a Hoss to spell him for a while.

That’s not a conestoga. That’s more like a prairie schooner.

But the dealer gave him such a great price (and it had low milage, too)!

little known fact… while the ever-popular Conestoga "Rickshaw"s were imported, the economic benefits of the smaller size, reduced wheelbase and lighter weight, at times would have eagerly been traded for an American made “Caravan”

Now I’m thirsty….

well….just who is gonna go out there an pick up the pieces?

hey Wiley? where is our girl friend? Dienae….

Where’s the rest of the wagon train?Oh. Did they already eat their oxen, horses, and mules?

i forget where, but i once heard that most people walked. the wagons were used to haul household goods and supplies…

I though he was going to a town named for Helen A. Handcart!

but actually I don’t understand this cartoon at all…

I love the education I get from the comments. :D

Were the ruts from dragging those boats over the pass?