The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories

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Contents List of Maps x Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv A Note on the Texts xli 1. The Northwest Plateau: Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties 1 Mrs. Dan’els 4 Mrs. Henry Harris 12 Emma Daum Amick 15 Madeline Adams and Jennie Reische 20 2. The Mountains and Foothills: Gunnison, Rio Grande, Chaffee, Delta, Arapahoe, and Alamosa Counties 23 Mary Nichols Williams 25 Hattie Buck Williams 31 Anna Lee Fulcher Clarkson 35 Elizabeth Rule Harrington 42 Mary R. Goff 54 Mrs. Dock Wade 57 Ada B. Sittser 58 Julia E. Cozens 59 Mrs. William Stewart 62 Mary Jane Cole 63 3. The South: Pueblo, Otero, El Paso, and Las Animas Counties 67 Mrs. R. D. Russell 70 Hattie L. Hedges Trout 76 Mrs. Will Mattingly 79 Nellie Pollock Snyder 80 Mary E. Hayden 86 Cynthia Fisher 89 Anna Dillon 94 Mary Cox 99 4. The Northeast: Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties 103 Ada Fleming Sanford 107 Grace Brush Mayne 109 Etta L. Matteson Kettley 110 Katherine S. McElroy 111 Mrs. Pitt Smith 113 Jennie Lucas 116 Sallie J. Cheairs 119 Lizzie Gordon Buchanan 124 Mrs. W. H. Clatworthy 129 5. The Eastern Prairie: Kit Carson and Prowers Counties 133 Nellie Buchanan 137 Elizabeth Gutting Lengel 142 Cynthia E. Boyles 144 Flora Linford Ferris 147 Mary Belle Kiser Haynes 150 Angelina Fuller 153 Anna Quinn 156 Clementina E. Morrison-Guthrie 159 Elizabeth Richards 163 Martha Gilmore Lundy 168 Luella Bell McKenzie 170 Anna Homm 174 Sarah Blakeman 176 Jennie E. Davis 178 Zelma Ackelson Davis 180 Malinda Jones Brammeier 182 Louise A. Merrill 184 6. The Southwest: La Plata and Montezuma Counties 189 Dora Provis Pedersen 193 Kate Smith Myers 198 Mella McCluer Bohlick 199 Sarah Ann Menefee 202 Eliza LaCount 210 Hubertine Pulvermiller 211 Clara Morris Ormiston 214 E. W. Camp 216 Mary D. Hansen 219 Carrie Smith Dunham 224 Eva Adams House 228 Mary Lee Lamb 230 Agnes Langkamp Lupke 236 Alice Henderson Akin 239 Joanna Spalding Todd 243 Sarah Elizabeth Walker Moore 252 Dora Provis Pedersen 259 Mary Alverda Estes Taylor 261 Lucy Catherine Brumley-McConnell 265 Mrs. Hattie Johnson Porter 273 Mrs. Matt Hammond 276 Appendix: The Correspondence of Anna Florence Robison and LeRoy Hafen 281 Notes 307 Bibliography 345 Index 353 Maps 1. Colorado counties represented xvi 2. The Santa Fe Trail xvii 3. The northwest plateau 2 4. The mountains and foothills 24 5. The south 68 6. The northeast 104 7. The eastern prairie 134 8. The southwest 190 ...