Headed West Free to Be Me

At the beginning, most men and women had very different reasons to find themselves on the Oregon Trail. For men, it was the land! Free land! While for many women, it was to accompany their husbands. But for other women, it was for opportunity, adventure and freedom! Freedom to be free from the social restrictions, legal limitations and confining customs common in Eastern society at the time.
"Oh, to be Free!The emerging Eagle in Me!To escape the closed cages of my past.And soar high aloft early morn,Sun-bless'd and breeze-borne,'Free to be Me' at last!"