East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-16
"GirI From Wyoming" Tells
OF Long, Hard Ride Made
on Wager.
PLUCKY ALBERTA CLAIRE
CROSSED BLUE MOUNTAINS
For Three Days She Rode Through
Snow Between La Grande and This
City-It Making Cross Continent
Ride Upon Wager.

Miss Alberta Claire, the Girl from
markable feat of riding horseback
from ocean to ocean, is in Pendleton
and will remain here until Monday
morning, when she will resume her
long journey. She rode into town
yesterday afternoon from La Grande,
having consumed three days in fore
ing her way across the Blue noun
tains. She found the snow very deep
on the summit and the trails all OBJ
liberated so that it was with the great
est difficulty and only after expert
encing many hardships that she sue
ceeded in beating her way through.
On Wednesday she made only ten
miles, so great were the obstacles In.
her path.
Miss Claire left her home in Buff
falo, Wyoming, on April 2, and has
been riding continuously ever since
with only few days intermission oc-
casionally to enable her to make
funds with which to continue her trip.
This she generally does by appearing
at a theater in a vaudeville sketcH
and while in Pendleton she will be
featured by the Grand theater for the
next three nights. If she succeeds in
completing her journey to New York
by way of San Francisco and New Or
leans. she will receive one of the best
farms in her home state and in addi-
ton $1,000 in cash.
Miss Claire is rather diminutive in
size but she has an unlimited
amount of pluck and goes on her way
without the least fear or hesitation.
That she encounters many hardships
and dangers goes without saying but
she accepts them all as a part of her
task and meets them as they come.
She tells of many exciting experiences
but her nerve, her dog. and her re-
volver have always carried her
through them safely. Frequently she
says she is forced to put up at the
camps of cowboys, woodchoppers or
loggers but generally, she says, they
treat her with every respect. Only
once a tough cowboy insulted her ut
shot from her revolver which clip
ped off a part of one ear reminded
that a woman who Is ready to un-
dertake such trip is also prepared
to defend herself
Miss Claire likes to talk of her ex-
periences. To an East Oregonian rep
resentative she said:
"All my life have loved the noun
tains, the forests and the wild and
beautiful things of nature.
when 1 was 10 years old read
everything I could find out about
mountains, and when my grandmoth-
er, whom I was visiting in England,
asked why, to her great amusement
I answered: Some day I'b going up,
in the Rocky mountains.' She said
she hoped I'd enjoy the walk. At 1S
I visited Cripple Creek, Colo. and
mailed my grandmother a postal. say
ing: I'm up in the Rockies. and
didn't walk
'Riding horseback has always been
my favorite occupation from foE;
hunting in England to riding the range
in this greatest OF all countries. L
left Buffalo, Wyoming, last spring
going through the Hole In the WALL
the greatest cattle country Of old Wy
oming days, where many horse and,
cattle 'rustlers found a hiding place.
my pony. The dog was given to me
a week or so later.
During this time have earned my,
living. In towns give a vaudeville
act, sometimes I get O hall and giye
an entertainment alone. Out in the
country I often ride in the roundup
with the cowboys
''I have covered 2434 miles, as far
as Pendleton, using the same pony all
the way"
Miss Claire says one of the results
of her present feat is number OF pro-
posals of marriage, but she declares
the men only look on her as a money
making proposition and not as a girl
who would make desirable wife.
She leaves for Portland Monday
but thinks she will probably have to
ship through the Cascades.