Comments on: Traveling West in 1854: The Story of an 11-Year-Old Girl and Her Family https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:56:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/#comment-444420 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:14:27 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=4716#comment-444420 In reply to Walt Dinkins.

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It must have been fascinating! And yes, the difficulty of getting through the area must have been enormous.

]]> By: Walt Dinkins https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/#comment-444367 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:10:57 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=4716#comment-444367 Having lived in Panama while in the Military and with an adventurous spirit to explore the history of Panama and the Canal Zone I was amazed at seeing the sights all along with the Zonnies who were kind to show much of their historical documents to me. To imagine how difficult it was prior to the canal being completed is quite a understatement. The numbers of deaths under the French operation were enormous as we’re the American & Panamanian operation until Dr. Finley medical research was taken seriously by Dr. Walter Reed and Dr Gorgas.

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/#comment-269804 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:41:51 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=4716#comment-269804 In reply to Meredith Richley.

Dear Meredith,
What a great family story—and how wonderful that you have the bed. Furniture at that time was very well made so I can imagine it’s a beauty.

The story this book tells about traveling across the isthmus makes us appreciate how lucky we are today. She faced rough travel and lots of bugs…thank you for posting!

Kate

]]> By: Meredith Richley https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/#comment-269703 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 06:33:29 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=4716#comment-269703 I am so thrilled to find this article. My great great grandmother came from Boston, across the isthmus of Panama on a mule just like the little girl described in this story sometime around 1850 or so, on her way to San Francisco. Her husband (who she later married in San Francisco came from Philadelphia, PA on a sailing ship around the horn of South America to San Francisco in 1850. They were married in 1854 in San Francisco. I actually have their bed which came on the sailing ship around the horn! My mother slept in it when she was a girl. My mother also was named the same name as my gggrandmother who came across on the mules – Mary Scott. Looking forward to purchasing this book. Thank you for publishing this article.

]]> By: hashimoto's https://americacomesalive.com/traveling-west-in-1854-the-story-of-an-11-year-old-girl-and-her-family/#comment-158273 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:01:54 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=4716#comment-158273 Understand when I first started up reading this article I did not
know everything could be fairly likely that precisely what you described on this site really existed.

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