by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood
By mail $19.95 At the reunion $15.00
Dorothy Coombs reading from “Into the Eye of the Setting Sun”
This is a story about traveling on the Oregon Trail. The author traveled the Trail in 1843 as a child. She was too young to keep a journal. So when she was in her sixties she wrote of things she remembered about the trip. It’s a good resource for anyone at any age studying the Oregon Trail and early Oregon. It’s also an enjoyable and captivating story as Charlotte combines an impressive and detailed memory of her childhood perspective with commentary from the broader life view of an adult.
The story of Jasper Newton Matheny (youngest child of Daniel Matheny & Mary Cooper Matheny) and his wife, Elizabeth Lee Matheny, when they lived in Mexico