August 7 (Saturday)
At Mammoth. Are going to back track on loop today. Will see Tower Falls, etc. Will try to make it out of north entrance this evening and hurry home. Think it will take three days to home. Love, Momma
August 8 (Sunday) 9:20 a.m. at Livingston, Montana
Dear Girls: We checked out at the north entrance at Gardiner last p.m.5:00 o’clock. Drove 23 miles, camped on creek with fine big cottonwood trees. Driving along Yellowstone River on Yellowstone Trail Road – rough. Can’t say what day we arrive. May phone or telegraph from Spokane. Weather cloudy and quite cool. We are very anxious to get home. Planned to be home sooner. Please have plenty of vegetables cooked for our first m
eal and a big cake, canned or fresh fruit. If handy, chicken. Love, Momma
August 9, 1926, at Anaconda, MT, 9:35 a.m.
Dear Girls: We made about 190 miles yesterday from 36 miles beyond Livingston to Bozeman 25 miles, Three Forks 34 miles, Butte 69, Anaconda 25. We were in two hard showers. At Bozeman we were one day late for their round-up. The town was finely decorated with bunting and flags. Lynn has a flat tire and has to have a tire vulcanized, so we are delayed again. I’m getting frantic on account of Cora and Graham and how you are getting along. Love, Momma (travels are writing diaries)
At Mammoth. Are going to back track on loop today. Will see Tower Falls, etc. Will try to make it out of north entrance this evening and hurry home. Think it will take three days to home. Love, Momma
August 8 (Sunday) 9:20 a.m. at Livingston, Montana
Dear Girls: We checked out at the north entrance at Gardiner last p.m.5:00 o’clock. Drove 23 miles, camped on creek with fine big cottonwood trees. Driving along Yellowstone River on Yellowstone Trail Road – rough. Can’t say what day we arrive. May phone or telegraph from Spokane. Weather cloudy and quite cool. We are very anxious to get home. Planned to be home sooner. Please have plenty of vegetables cooked for our first m
eal and a big cake, canned or fresh fruit. If handy, chicken. Love, MommaAugust 9, 1926, at Anaconda, MT, 9:35 a.m.
Dear Girls: We made about 190 miles yesterday from 36 miles beyond Livingston to Bozeman 25 miles, Three Forks 34 miles, Butte 69, Anaconda 25. We were in two hard showers. At Bozeman we were one day late for their round-up. The town was finely decorated with bunting and flags. Lynn has a flat tire and has to have a tire vulcanized, so we are delayed again. I’m getting frantic on account of Cora and Graham and how you are getting along. Love, Momma (travels are writing diaries)
[Much like life when one has a blog -- but I love every minute and so did she.]
August 10, 1926 (Tuesday), Missoula, a.m.
We didn’t leave Anaconda till 12:30. Ate our lunch there and drove 117 miles. It was windy and cold and we were in one hard shower. It has been cold ever since we left the Park. We wear our coats and sweaters and put the curtains on. We are trying to make it as far as Coeur d’Alene today. Spokane is over 200 miles away. We won’t get home till Thursday. I’m just wild when I stop to think of it. Hope we don’t have any more car trouble. In haste. Love, Momma
August 10, 1926 (Tuesday), Missoula, a.m.
We didn’t leave Anaconda till 12:30. Ate our lunch there and drove 117 miles. It was windy and cold and we were in one hard shower. It has been cold ever since we left the Park. We wear our coats and sweaters and put the curtains on. We are trying to make it as far as Coeur d’Alene today. Spokane is over 200 miles away. We won’t get home till Thursday. I’m just wild when I stop to think of it. Hope we don’t have any more car trouble. In haste. Love, Momma
["No, no -- that can't be," said Mike when I told them the Yellowstone travelers camped at Spangle on the way home. But that's what happened. They traveled back through Montana to Missoula, then over to Spokane, before returning to the farm. Well, there was no Lolo Pass -- at least, not an improved road, so it seems to me they would have been better off to go back the way they came, especially since Ina is obviously nervous. According to identification on the backs of the photos, the one of Shirley on the left was taken at Spangle, WA, on Wednesay, August 11, 1926. The photo of Vance with the little Boston terrier was taken at Three Toots Camp at Kellogg, Idaho, on August 10, 1926.]
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