Still another 2 monts and Norman was at Perote. Most of this trip was made by walking. Now the distance is easily driven in 2 days or an hour by plane. She was born 17 March 1847 and died 15 May 1936 at her home near Florence. She and the four small Hoy children were accompanying Hoy, who was in charge of a herd of Llano County cattle being driven to Ft Sumner, New Mexico, in 1867.
Story fills almost two full newspaper pages.
From the narrative, the author is the cowgirl mentioned in the title, and a daughter of Jimsey Husted. She was born Jamie Lois Duncan in Burnet County, the granddaughter of two soldiers in gray, Green Duncan and James G. Cook , from whom she probably interited her willingness to stand up and fight for the things she believed to be right. She was the great-granddaughter of a circuit riding Methodist minister, Valentine Cook, and she was true to that faith throughout her life. She was reared in Burnet and was always one of us, loving the land where she was nurtured. In 1936 she and Chester Cuthell Husted were married, and their children are Harris Duncan Husted and Jamie Akenhead .