The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold

Author:Jeanette Ingold [Ingold, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dear Celia and Lizbeth,

This is to tell you we are clearing out from this hateful country. I wish I could leave you with good thoughts, but I have none remaining and just hope you won't ever know what it is to lose all. For forty hours, Nathaniel and the children and I fought the blazes threatening at our place, until they had passed us by and we believed we were safe. Then we slept the sleep of the dead. Although I realize it is a shameful thought, I still do not know if I am truly glad God woke us when He did, for the wind had turned and that fire come back at us.

We escaped with our lives but none else, and I fear Nathaniel's spirit is broken. Tomorrow we leave for my brother's farm in the Palouse country below Spokane, where we will try to think what to do next.

I am sorry to write this, but after receiving your loving letter, I did not wish to leave you wondering. I disremember the particulars of your circumstance, but if you can sell out now, for goodness' sake do, and get out.

Your sad friend,

Dora Crane

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