Have no time to teach them. Have not seen a woman in two months. Children don't know what Christmas presents are. Traveled three months. 1869 - Frankie, age 14, wrote his first lines to his grandparents in Naperville.
Old folks move back to Butte county.
Girls can't go through the mud. Clara's gone to Josepha's. 1873- Frankie does not go to school. Lives with Headers. Sam is in mountains with the cattle, Ida with Josepha.