We Can See The Car Track From The Window, And I Wonder How It Will
Seem To Go Over In A Car, The Country That We Came Across In Wagons
Only One Year Ago.
From Granada we will go to the post in an
ambulance, a distance of forty or more miles.
But a ride of fifty
miles over these plains has no terrors for me now. The horses,
furniture, and other things went on in a box car this morning. It is
very annoying to be detained here so long, and I am a little worried
about that girl. The telegram says she was too sick to start
yesterday.
FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY,
June, 1873.
IT has been impossible for me to write before, for I have been more
than busy, both day and night, ever since we got here. The servant for
whom we waited at Dodge City, and who I had hoped would be a great
assistance to me in getting settled, came to us very ill - almost too
ill to be brought over from Granada. But we could not leave her there
with no one to take care of her, and of course I could not remain with
her, so there was nothing else to be done - we had to bring her along.
We had accepted Mrs. Wilder's invitation to stay with them a few days
until we could get settled a little, but all that was changed when we
got here, for we were obliged to come directly to our own house,
unpack camp bedding and the mess chest, and do the best we could for
ourselves and the sick girl.
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