> ROADDAYS ON THE Digitized the Internet Archiveby in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/daysonroadcrossiOOhernrich ^fa^tj^ y2l^/3^!^j5v^ ^^/,^^.^^j,,n^ DAYS ON THE ROAD Crossing the Plains in 1865 BY SARAH RAYMOND HERNDON New Yo r k BURR PRINTING HOUSE 1902 y . -'m. -V.^ Copyright, 1902, Herndon.By Sarah Raymond 4=1-34^ ^ ^ DEDICATED TO ANDPIONEERS OF MONTANATHE "GREAT WEST,"THE Wagons.the Plains inWho Crossed PREFACE. I do not expect to gain fame or fortune by the publication of this Httle book. I have prepared it for publication, because a num- ber of the pioneers who read my journal twenty years ago, when published in The Husbandman, have asked me to. At that time I was a busy wife, mother and housekeeper, and could only write when my baby boy was taking his daily nap, to supply the copy for each week. No one knows better than I how very imperfect it was, yet many seemed to enjoy it, and the very kindlypress that noticed it at all spoke of it. ; R.S. H. REMINISCENCES OF THE PLAINS BY DR. HOWARD. Editor Husbandman.—Through your kindness to Mrs. Howard, we are a reader of your excellent journal. Hence a few months ago our eyes fell upon "Reminis- ences of Pilgrimage Across the Plains in 1865," by S. R. H., and at once recognized the writer as the "lady who rode the gallant And sir, were an humblebay.
>ROADDAYS ON THEDigitized the Internet Archiveby in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/daysonroadcrossiOOhernrich^fa^tj^ y2l^/3^!^j5v^ ^^/,^^.^^j,,n^DAYS ON THE ROAD Crossing the Plains in 1865 BY SARAH RAYMOND HERNDON New Yo r k BURR PRINTING HOUSE 1902y . -'m. -V.^ Copyright, 1902, Herndon.By Sarah Raymond