Eminence: meaning, Distinction, -renowned, - Importance, - Reputation. What makes Men and women pioneers of yesteryear and today?
These are stories with impact. Every story is of a person, place or event that, in some way, had an impact on America.
One can only imagine traveling in heavy dust all day or ankle deep mud, crossing a raging river, many had quick sand areas, going down a steep hill getting turned sideways and your wagon rolling , getting caught in an Indian raid, witnessing deaths and having no time to morn them, traveling with wagon trains consisting of over one thousand people and fifteen to twenty miles long, on the westward journey. By reading the few true diary’s written, in A Woman’s Journey West, it may help you understand.
Excerpt: “I lost my wife and daughter while giving birth but was only afforded one hour to bury them beside the trail as the wagon master could not stop the train for such events”.
Women Made America, stories of the vital roll women played in the development of America and their diaries, cherished today by their owners, entered as written.
What was it like to oversee a “Bull Outfit” (freighting train) consisting of twenty-five wagons to one-hundred, each pulled by a team of twelve horses or mules, pulling wagons that weighed five thousand pounds loaded?
What was it really like to travel at two-miles-per-hour in dust so thick that it could be seen for over twenty miles away?
After walking all day and stopping at dusk, erecting the tents, hobbling the riding horses, chaining all the wagon wheels together in the large circular enclosure, starting cooking fires, cooking food for the over one thousand, tending the young and sick, making the beds, cleaning the evening dishes, the men, in groups of ten to fifteen, taking three hour shifts throughout the night standing guard,
Every morning getting up before dawn, herding the hundreds of livestock to the closest water and if none close, hand watering them, doing all the same chores, only in reverse, because at sunrise the wagons were rolling west, with or without you.
Early First Americans, their life style, food, and travel as told in the story of Mã-Hãtá Õ-Sêêk-Õ (Cheyenne for black dog).
Medical remedies and recipes from the middle 1800s, used by wagon trains and on cattle drives.
Excerpt: “When Miss Sukovaty was a small girl, when this part of the country was all open-range, she would spend the summer months herding cattle. She did all the herding by foot and explained that shoes were somewhat a luxury at this time and only worn on dress up occasions, so all her herding was done barefoot. She spoke of how the cattle would wander for miles, but they all had to be rounded up and brought home at night.”
Eighty-two years of events, during the Industrial Revelation and beyond, to the space age.
What was it like to hear your first radio?
What was it like to see your first automobile?
What was it like to see your first airplane?
What was it like to see First Americans become citizens of their own nation?
What was it like to read the headlines telling of the gunfight at the OK corral?
What was it like to be one of the first generation to taste Coca Cola?
What was it like to be the first human in space?
What was it like?
stories with eminence
