Source Record 1268
| Description: | Source Type} Newspaper | Family History} Olson | ||
| Olson, Josephine. "My Trip to California".
The Alhambra, Alhambra, Los Angeles County, Southern California, Saturday, December 24,
1887. Vol. 1, No. 8, p. 1, col. 4-5. Entire issue of paper was saved by her parents,
and Josephine signed her essay "Sage Hen", a reference to her birth in Nevada. Josephine was
11 years old and in the fourth grade when she received a prize of $2.50 for this essay. I left Lincoln county, Nevada, and traveled over planes that were covered with Nevada clover, sage brush and narrow gague mules, rabbits, and a lot of rattle-snakes. Then we came to Salmon Falls, a cataract of Snake river, in Idaho territory. We crossed Snake river on a ferry boat. We went next to Boise City, the capital of the territority, then we went to to Grand Round Valley, Oregon. This beautiful valley lies in the Blue mountains. Thence we traveled south on the east side of the Cascade mountains. We crossed so many beautiful streams and great forests of pines and tamarack. There we used to get out and gather strawberries,but one thing I remember most of all, we were picking strawberries in the afternoon at about three o'clock, when we heard a terrible roar, coming through the forest, and all at once there was a great storm. It pulled the big pine trees up by the roots and laid them by our wagons. It must have been the Almighty that kept it from killing us. I think it was the most terrible noise ever heard; papa says it was a tornado. It took us several days to get out of the forest, as papa had to get the fallen timber out of the road. The next place we cme to was Camp Henry, at one time the headquarters of Gen. Henry and his men. I think the mosquitos drove the soldiers away from there, for they seemed to have full possession of the place. We were glad to get away from that place. We had bad roads and were obliged to travel by night a great many times, in order to get to water. After we crossed the Cascade mountains, we came to Rogue River Valley. The "Webfooters" called it "God's country," but I don't think it is, for some of us got the chills after being there two days. Now our poor horses had to climb the Siskiyou mountains. When they stopped to rest we all used to pull wood ticks out of their hair, because they had so many. Next we came to Shasta, this is a very cold looking mountain and it seemed as if we never would get away from it. We came down the mountain at last and then we were in California. We went next to Redding and then down the Sacramento Valley to Sacramento City. It took us four weeks to come from Sacramento to Los Angeles. I came to Alhambra the day before Christmas and I had a very merry time the next day. I am ten years old and in all my travels I never saw a prettier place than Alhambra. Sage Hen. | ||||
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