August 30th, 2007

I continue to work on the book about schoolmarms of the Old West. I’ve been writing on a chapter about a 66 year-old woman who traveled to Oregon from Independence in 1846. She weighed 108 pounds and walked with a cane. After she arrived in the Oregon territory she went to work teaching school and caring for orphans. The strength of character in the women from back then is amazing. I have four wonderful neices and hope they grow up to have the same courage as the ladies I’ve had the honor to write about. My neices are Taylor and Jordan Parry and Melissa and Amanda Enss. What a delight they’ve been.