Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-15
NAN ASPINWALL
ON HER WAY
Experiences En- Route-Neigh
of Horse Saved Her
Life.

Everybody i'm Honolulu remembers
Nan Aspinwall and her bright, CHEEKY
smile as she dashed up and down the
streets of this city some few months
ago, and of her ayoWed intention of
engaging in a horseback ride from San
| Francisco to New York. Nan is get
ting there, according to the Falls City
News of March 8, the account of her
trip and few of the happenings of.
the trip being given below, clipped
| from the above mentioned paper:
Nan j. Aspinwall, the famous cow
girl, who is riding her thoroughbred
mare from San Francisco to New York,
arrived in Falls City Wednesday, Feb
ruary %, after a decidedly strenuous
| trip.
| Miss Aspinwall has been undergoing
| hardships on her trip that would tax
| the endurance of hardened man. With
reference to her ride from San Fran
cisco, Miss Aspinwall is the original
never again girl" One such expert
ence she emphatically declares is suf-
| icient to satisfy her for several life
times. Miss Aspinwall is profession
al equestrienne, having ridden with the
| Buffalo Bill show, but she had never
been called upon to rough it, and the
| hard times that she had were new
and decidedly disagreeable experience
| for her.
| Crossing the white Death" all went
J fairly well until she struck the first
desert from Fallon, New, to Austin,
New, 15O-mile stretch, only being
able to find shelter once. On this part
of the ride she saw many wild horses
and came up within sixty feet or q
| band of them. She saw the bones Oh
many animals and people who had lost
their lives from drinking the arsenic
water (the only kind this particular
desert affords) and from other causes
such as heat, blizzards, etc.
On the trip from Austin to Battle
Mt, Miss Aspinwall had to seek ac-
commodations at Hot Springs, with
| some cattle rustlers. They charged her
i $3.50 for one feed of wild hay, and
tried their best to find out how much
money she had Miss AspnWall looks
upon the ride from Wells, New, where
she forsook the beaten path for the
Western Pacific Railroad, which she
rode for 500 miles, as about the most
eyentful of her trip From Shafter to
| Proctor, in trying to take short cut,
\ she got on a prospectors road which
\ led up a granite mountain. All at once
she discovered she was lost. In trying
to go back she could find no trail, as
the horses feet, or her own, had MADE
no impression on the granite. she
wandered all that day and finally tied
her horse and climbed one OF the
points near to see if she could see any
signs of q habitation. In coming back
down the underbrush was so thick she
was unable to find her horse. She sal
down reduced to despair, not knowing
what to do. While sitting there the
mare got restless and neighed for hei
rider. Miss Aspinwall feels that Is the
only thing that saved her life, as she
had exhausted every means of finding
her location and the loss OF her nors'
took away her nerve completely.
She was in this lost condition Two
days and one night, with only th'
bunch grass for her horse, and no foot
for herself 1t was freezing cold a
night and broiling hot through the day
Miss AspinWall finally got her mare
over one of the peaks and slid down
sometimes ten and twenty feet at
time, During all this time she was OF
foot and got into the railroad camp O
Proctor carrying what was left OF ne
boots in her hand. The men came ou
: and carried her into camp; her zee
were bleeding from the grease-Woo'
and granite, and there were ten castu
thorns taken from one foot. She stay
ed there three days, cooking Tor TN
men of the camp. From here she wen
to Wendover, the last town betor'
crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert
on this part of the trip, lasting sever
DAVIS. she was unable to procure a PEI
for one night, and did not remove he
already much worn boots for nv
nights
From Salt Lake to Green River, sh
followed the Denver and RIO Granu
Railroad. AT the latter place the prlus
had been washed out and she wa
compelled to swim the river. The rive
was so high that she and the two me-
who piloted her across, were heari
swept away. From here nothlns
| any moment occurred until ello iN"N
ed Mitchell, before crossing Tennessee
Pass. Here she was very anxious
procure information as to the route I
Leadville. No one showed up, eVi
IDENTIFY thinking it was dangerous
be out when a bold female rider cam
to town. After firing three shots i
succession a number of times owner
is the distress signal in the WesD' "
wound up by plugging everything u
sight" However, she made her get
away, but was compelled to pay W
after reaching Leadville. UP to he
fftieth day Miss Aspinwall had rid
den 1868 miles; slxtieth day, 221
miles; SEVENTEEN day, 2399 miles
eightieth day, 1850 12 miles; ninetiet
day, 26S2 miles; up to the time o
reaching Falls City she has ridden Isl
miles, She is the bearer of lette
from Mayor Mccarthy of San Fran
cisco to Mayor Gaynor of New York
She never permits anyone else I
feed, water or care for her mare !
any way The animal is in perfect con
dition and shows no signs OF her mar
Journey, She has been shod nine time