I shall be so glad to have a home of
my own again, and have a horse to ride also.
Faye has just come from the station and says that almost everything
has been loaded, and that we are really to start to-night at eight
o'clock. This is cheering news, for I think that everyone is anxious
to get to Montana, except the poor officers who cannot afford to take
their families with them.
CORINNE, UTAH TERRITORY,
September, 1877.
WE were almost one week coming out, but finally got here yesterday
morning. Our train was a special, and having no schedule, we were
often sidetracked for hours at a time, to make way for the regular
trains. As soon as possible after we arrived, the tents were unpacked
and put up, and it was amazing to see how soon there was order out of
chaos. This morning the camp looks like a little white city--streets
and all. There is great activity everywhere, as preparations have
already commenced for the march north. Our camp "mess" has been
started, and we will be very comfortable, I think, with a good soldier
cook and Cagey to take care of the tents. I am making covers for the
bed, trunk, and folding table, of dark-blue cretonne with white
figures, which carries out the color scheme of the folding chairs and
will give a little air of cheeriness to the tent, and of the same
material I am making pockets that can be pinned on the side walls of
the tent, in which various things can be tucked at night.
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