Days On The Road Crossing the Plains 1865

New York: Burr Printing House. Very Good-. 1902. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are generally clean and bright, with some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There are several spots of discoloration to the front and rear panels. The text pages are generally clean - however there is tidemarking / foxing to the top inner hinges and edges of the pages by the hinges (travelling down about two inches and about an inch in length) which mostly affects the endpapers and pages closest to the endpapers. "Resident of Virginia City, Mont. ; seamstress, school teacher. The Raymond family arrived in Virginia City by wagon train from Missouri in September 1865. They were Mrs. Delilah Raymond and her children Sarah (Sallie) , William Hillhouse, and Winthrop. Mrs. Raymond started a boarding house and the boys soon had purchased a ranch they called Belmont Park . Sarah began teaching school in March, 1866 as probably the first public school teacher in an organized school district in the Montana Territory. After teaching for one school year, Sarah married James M. Herndon in May 1867 and remained in Virginia City until her death in 1914. Sarah had kept a diary of the wagon train trip which was published in 1902 as "Days on the Road." She also kept a 1866 diary of her experiences in Virginia City and teaching school. The Raymond family was prominent in Virginia City and Madison County. They began a successful freight company and the Raymond Brothers store. W. Hillhouse took over Belmont Park which became renowned for its trotters and Winthrop platted the town of Sheridan, Montana where he was in banking and land development. Mrs. Raymond died in 1896, W. Hillhouse in 1905 and Winthrop in 1912." ( from SNAC) .