Status Updates From The Expedition of the Donne...

1861 the first Pony Express. Bill Cody just 14. Takes two weeks for them to cover 2000 miles at a cost of $5.

To Eliza, Captain Sutter had long been the embodiment of all that was good and grand; and now
I longed to touch his hand and whisper to him gratitude too sacred for strangers' ears. But the
opportunity was withheld until riper years.

We had entered school silent in regard to personal history, and did not wish public attention turned toward ourselves even in an indirect way, fearing it might lead to a revival of the false and sensational accounts of the past.

"I was never a morbid child, and the days that I did not find a sunbeam in life, I was apt to hunt for a rainbow."

What a lovely quote for a teen that has gone through what she has!

On their own.

Spring comes and Grandma is getting a new home built for her and plowing had begun.

Back to Grandma Brunner's finally!