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2. Short-response prompt

Read the following excerpt from Margaret Frink's Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers.
Mr. Wand and his company have left their wagons here and made pack-saddles, intending to pack their clothing, blankets, provisions, and cooking utensils on their animals, in order to travel faster. They stopped here two days for that purpose, and are now ready to start. Mr. Johnson, of Morgan County, Indiana, had been with Mr. Wand's party up to this time, but preferring not to pack through, made arrangements with Mr. Frink to travel with us. His horse, a good animal, was harnessed to our wagon and proved quite useful.
As it is used in this excerpt, what do you think the phrase pack through means? What context clues help you determine the meaning of this phrase in the excerpt? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

I think that in this passage the phrase "pack through" means carrying one's belongings on saddle packs on the horses and leaving the wagons (covered wagons?) behind to travel faster to get to the California gold fields sooner. Mr Johnson decided not to travel this way and instead harnessed his horse to the Frink's wagon and they continued as before. The following excerpt intimates what "pack through" means without actually saying it in those many words. "Mr. Wand and his company have left their wagons here and made pack-saddles, intending to pack their clothing, blankets, provisions, and cooking utensils on their animals, in order to travel faster".