Married Tipton Thompson March 28, 1858 in Healdsburg, Sonoma County California.
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SURVIVOR OF CALIFORNIA GOLD
RUSH RECALLS TRIP TO TEXAS
IN COVERED WAGON IN 1880
It's nothing, nowadays, for folks to jump into their automobiles and start out on a journey of 500 or 1,000 miles or so, secure in the knowledge that they will arrive at their destinations within twelve or twenty-four or forty-eight hours or some such a matter.
It was different back in 1880.
It was also different as far back as 1854.
Then, such journeys were made in covered wagons, with a pair or two pairs of heavy set horses or powerful mules for motive power.
Mrs. E. T. Thompson, past 80, but as bright mentally and as strong physically as she was when she came to Texas, remembers that kind of a trip in '80, and also a similar one, out to California, in 1854.
"Certainly, I remember coming to Texas," Mrs. Thompson said. "The journey in a covered wagon wasn't any new experience to me. As a 12-year-old girl, I had gone from our old home in Missouri out to California, and I enjoyed it. Of course, the Texas trip didn't carry with it the novelty and the anticipation that I got out of the California experience, but it wasn't unenjoyable at that."
In Gold Rush.
As a girl, Mrs. Thompson was a member of a big party of Missourians who made the California "trek," along with the other Argonauts, in the historic search for gold, which started in 1849. "We didn't find any gold," Mrs. Thompson dryly remarked, "but we did find an ideal climate. Next to Texas, I think California offers the most in the way of comfortable living conditions, and I'd like to see it once more. Our home was up on the side of a mountain and in sight of the ocean--something Texas can't supply, as fine as it is."
March 28, 1926, Dallas Daily Times Herald, Section I, p. 3, col. 2-5.
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SURVIVOR OF CALIFORNIA GOLD
RUSH RECALLS TRIP TO TEXAS
IN COVERED WAGON IN 1880
It's nothing, nowadays, for folks to jump into their automobiles and start out on a journey of 500 or 1,000 miles or so, secure in the knowledge that they will arrive at their destinations within twelve or twenty-four or forty-eight hours or some such a matter.
It was different back in 1880.
It was also different as far back as 1854.
Then, such journeys were made in covered wagons, with a pair or two pairs of heavy set horses or powerful mules for motive power.
Mrs. E. T. Thompson, past 80, but as bright mentally and as strong physically as she was when she came to Texas, remembers that kind of a trip in '80, and also a similar one, out to California, in 1854.
"Certainly, I remember coming to Texas," Mrs. Thompson said. "The journey in a covered wagon wasn't any new experience to me. As a 12-year-old girl, I had gone from our old home in Missouri out to California, and I enjoyed it. Of course, the Texas trip didn't carry with it the novelty and the anticipation that I got out of the California experience, but it wasn't unenjoyable at that."
In Gold Rush.
As a girl, Mrs. Thompson was a member of a big party of Missourians who made the California "trek," along with the other Argonauts, in the historic search for gold, which started in 1849. "We didn't find any gold," Mrs. Thompson dryly remarked, "but we did find an ideal climate. Next to Texas, I think California offers the most in the way of comfortable living conditions, and I'd like to see it once more. Our home was up on the side of a mountain and in sight of the ocean--something Texas can't supply, as fine as it is."
March 28, 1926, Dallas Daily Times Herald, Section I, p. 3, col. 2-5.
Married Tipton Thompson March 28, 1858 in Healdsburg, Sonoma County California.
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SURVIVOR OF CALIFORNIA GOLD
RUSH RECALLS TRIP TO TEXAS
IN COVERED WAGON IN 1880
It's nothing, nowadays, for folks to jump into their automobiles and start out on a journey of 500 or 1,000 miles or so, secure in the knowledge that they will arrive at their destinations within twelve or twenty-four or forty-eight hours or some such a matter.
It was different back in 1880.
It was also different as far back as 1854.
Then, such journeys were made in covered wagons, with a pair or two pairs of heavy set horses or powerful mules for motive power.
Mrs. E. T. Thompson, past 80, but as bright mentally and as strong physically as she was when she came to Texas, remembers that kind of a trip in '80, and also a similar one, out to California, in 1854.
"Certainly, I remember coming to Texas," Mrs. Thompson said. "The journey in a covered wagon wasn't any new experience to me. As a 12-year-old girl, I had gone from our old home in Missouri out to California, and I enjoyed it. Of course, the Texas trip didn't carry with it the novelty and the anticipation that I got out of the California experience, but it wasn't unenjoyable at that."
In Gold Rush.
As a girl, Mrs. Thompson was a member of a big party of Missourians who made the California "trek," along with the other Argonauts, in the historic search for gold, which started in 1849. "We didn't find any gold," Mrs. Thompson dryly remarked, "but we did find an ideal climate. Next to Texas, I think California offers the most in the way of comfortable living conditions, and I'd like to see it once more. Our home was up on the side of a mountain and in sight of the ocean--something Texas can't supply, as fine as it is."
March 28, 1926, Dallas Daily Times Herald, Section I, p. 3, col. 2-5.
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SURVIVOR OF CALIFORNIA GOLD
RUSH RECALLS TRIP TO TEXAS
IN COVERED WAGON IN 1880
It's nothing, nowadays, for folks to jump into their automobiles and start out on a journey of 500 or 1,000 miles or so, secure in the knowledge that they will arrive at their destinations within twelve or twenty-four or forty-eight hours or some such a matter.
It was different back in 1880.
It was also different as far back as 1854.
Then, such journeys were made in covered wagons, with a pair or two pairs of heavy set horses or powerful mules for motive power.
Mrs. E. T. Thompson, past 80, but as bright mentally and as strong physically as she was when she came to Texas, remembers that kind of a trip in '80, and also a similar one, out to California, in 1854.
"Certainly, I remember coming to Texas," Mrs. Thompson said. "The journey in a covered wagon wasn't any new experience to me. As a 12-year-old girl, I had gone from our old home in Missouri out to California, and I enjoyed it. Of course, the Texas trip didn't carry with it the novelty and the anticipation that I got out of the California experience, but it wasn't unenjoyable at that."
In Gold Rush.
As a girl, Mrs. Thompson was a member of a big party of Missourians who made the California "trek," along with the other Argonauts, in the historic search for gold, which started in 1849. "We didn't find any gold," Mrs. Thompson dryly remarked, "but we did find an ideal climate. Next to Texas, I think California offers the most in the way of comfortable living conditions, and I'd like to see it once more. Our home was up on the side of a mountain and in sight of the ocean--something Texas can't supply, as fine as it is."
March 28, 1926, Dallas Daily Times Herald, Section I, p. 3, col. 2-5.
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