Part 13 (2/2)

We came to St Anthony in 1856 butter was 12-1/2c a pound; potatoes 15c a bushel and turnips, 10c I have never seen finer vegetables We ar instead of apples

One of our neighbors was noted for her ive it as follows: ”I take so, and soh ood” Needless to say, she continued to be the only aret A Snyder--1856

Mr Snyder and Mr Pettit used to batch it in a cabin in Glencoe before our e In '56 we decided to ether with Mr Cook and Mr McFarland were forty-eight hours going the sixty ht got to ”Eight Mile Dutchman's” When we ca covered with heavy cotton sheeting Mycarpet which we had with us The stripes instead of running across, ran lengthwise There was a wide stripe of black and then aily colored stripes When it was down on the floor, it ht so looked hohbor women were invited into the country to spend the day While ere gone sohbors said, ”The mosquitoes e” A little later, they saw the house was in flaether with all our possessions These notes were never paid, as we had no record so ere left poor indeed We were able to get boards for the sides of our new house, but lived in it six weeks without a roof, doors or s We had a few boards over the bed There was only one hard rain in all that ti this tie yellow kind We pounded it in a bag andto eat on the cakes nor in the coffee and yet ere happy My husband always kept his gun by the bed during this ti their feathers on the top of our house wall

Father fired and killed both, one falling inside and the other outside

Mrs Colonel Stevens was our nearest neighbor We just took a little Indian trail to her house

We had wild plums and little wild cherries with stems just like tame cherries, on our farm They helped out tremendously as they with cranberries were our only fruit

One etting breakfast They said nothing tothemselves; took out pipes and all s to eat Finally they went aithout trouble

Indian Charlie, afterwards hung at Mankato, was often at the house and becareat nuisance He would follow me all over the house I would say, ”Go sit down Charlie,” at the sa at hio He once found un and pointed it atmy foot, ”Put it down Charlie,” and very reluctantly he finally did Then, I took it until he left

My husband enlisted, so in 1862 we ely and lived in one room One day three squaws, one of as old Betts, came in to sell moccasins I asked her to make soar I would give her for it She brought theot another piece which was larger but not the same, of course When she saw it as not the sary I then gave her the pork and tls of sugar instead of one and she went away

Later I saw her in the next room where another family lived and said, ”Aunt Betts called me, Cheatey Squaw, Cheatey Squaw” Quick as a flash she drew a long wicked looking knife fro and locking ain allowed on the reservation Later in the year, before the massacre, I went home to Pennsylvania

When we built on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Tenth Street, we could plainly hear the roar of St Anthony Falls I used to follow an Indian trail part of the way don

Mrs Helen Horton--1856, Minneapolis

When I ca here I found the young people just as gay as they could be anywhere, however The first party I attended was a cotillion I wore a black silk skirt, eighteen feet around the bottom, with three flounces, over hoops too A black velvet basque pointed front and back, and cut very short on the sides gave a great deal of style to the costuht low in front and puffed over horsehair cushi+ons at the sides It stuck out five inches from the sides of ular dancing steps forward and ten back and floated along just like a thistledown--no clu around like they do now Just at this tireen and brown broken plaid The blocks were nine inches across

One evening ere to have a sociable It was great fun playing ga They wantedan to run and after the teaht supplies had stopped It was always a scarce tiar to make a white cake as I knew a friend as to make a pork and dried apple cake, a dark cake, so I wanted the opposite kind We went everywhere but could find no sugar I was so disappointed Finally a friend took his horse and cutter and in one of the houses ere able to find a little My cake was delicious Did you ever make a pork apple pie? You cut the pork so thin you can alh it Cover the bottom of a pie tin with it, then cut the apples up on top of this Put two thin crusts one on top of the other over this, then when cooked, turn upside down in a dish and serve with hard sauce This recipe is over a hundred years old but nothing can beat it

The first home ned ourselves was at the corner of Ninth Street and Nicollet Avenue There was only one house in sight, that of Mr Welles

Our whole house was built froht

My father had a store at the corner of Helen St, and Washi+ngton Avenue

To reach it from our home at Fourth Street and Second Avenue North, we followed an Indian trail There was generally a big coith a bell to turn out for so Smith--1856

When we first ca so beautiful as that flowering prairie In thewe could hear the clear call of the prairie chickens I used to love to hear it

There were great flocks of theie! pigie!” was very companionable on that lonely prairie

So to roost they would darken the sun, there were such numbers of them Geese and ducks were very numerous, too Black birds were so thick they were acrops

I used to shoot them when I elve years old

Once ot into so, perhaps poison ivy My uncle's face ful and father nearly lost his sight He was almost blind for seven years but finally Dr Daniels of St Peter cured hiet no one to help us harvest I cut one hundred acres strapped to the seat as I was too small to stay there any other way