Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8 by Kenneth L. Holmes

Author:Kenneth L. Holmes [Holmes, Kenneth L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780803276925
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 2014-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

1 This is Harriet Loughary’s version of a quote from the introduction to a work by the 18th century Italian writer, Cesare Beccaria (1736–1794), Treatise on Crimes and Punishments.

2 Agency City, now Agency, had been established as a Sac and Fox Indian agency in 1836. G. R. Ramsey, Postmarked Iowa (Crete, NE, 1976), p. 437.

3 The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad connected at Burlington with the Burlington and Missouri line to Ottumwa. It was a busy railroad during the Civil War. Thomas Weber, The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861–1865 (N.Y., 1952), pp. 4, 288–9.

4 Knoxville was the county seat of Marion Co:, Iowa.

5 Readily accessible bituminous coal underlies some 20,000 square miles in 20 Iowa counties. Iowa, A guide to the Hawkeye State (N.Y., 1949), p. 8.

6 There were a number of Coads who settled in Oregon. We have not been able to identify this one.

7 Merrill J. Mattes says that this was Major John S. Wood of the Seventh Iowa Volunteer Cavalry who had been detached to command Fort Kearny. Wood would rather hunt buffalo than Indians. He did so with the help of a pack of greyhounds that had been left at the fort in 1854 by an eccentric English soldier of fortune, Sir George Gore. The Great Platte River Road (Lincoln, 1969), p. 230. Capt. Eugene F. Ware, The Indian War of 1864, Clyde Walton, ed. (N.Y., 1960).

8 Here she mis-spells the name of W. J. Farley. She corrects it in her entry for May 23, below. Dr. Farley settled in Dayton, Oregon and lived out his life there. Olof Larsell, The Doctor in Oregon (Portland, 1927), p. 227.

9 Sometimes “Indian” massacres were really carried out by white men.

10 Present Wyoming was part of Idaho Territory from March 3, 1863, to May 1864. Word had not got to the travelers before this date, June 7, in Mrs. Loughary’s diary. C.J. Brosnan, History of Idaho (N.Y., 1948), pp. 181–3.

11 Rawhide Creek (Goshen Co.) had been a center of fur trade activity. There is a legend that it got its name because a man traveling west had vowed he would shoot the first Indian he saw. This turned out to be a young woman, and he shot her. Her people captured the man and skinned him alive, so the name “Rawhide.” Mae Urbanek, Wyoming Place Names (Missoula, MT, 1988), pp. 163–4.

12 This shows that they were using both oxen and horses with their wagons. They had to travel at the speed of oxen, about 3 m.p.h. Horses could travel faster, probably 5 m.p.h. Merrill J. Mattes admires her grit in driving a four-horse team. Platte River Road Narratives (Urbana, IL, 1988), p. 581.

13 This was a short cut surveyed and graded by Col. Frederick West Lander in 1857. See Volume VII of this series, p. 282, for another reference. The best study of the survey of western roads is W. Turrentine Jackson, Wagon Roods West (Berkeley, 1953). The best treatments of the Lander cutoff is Peter T. Harstad’s “The Lander Trail,” in Idaho Yesterdays, Fall 1968, Vol.

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