Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
Author: first_name: Sarah Raymond
last_name: Herndon
Language: English
Year: 1902

<i>“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road.  It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money . . . There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.  . . . It would not do to be sentimental under existing circumstances.” </i> This is the practical pioneer woman Sarah Raymond Herndon writing in her journal about selling her horse to finance the final days of her family’s trek across the plains to Montana.   However, when her brother, H