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Westering Women Block 12: Rocky Road to California by Denniele Bohannon Mountains in the far western United States create a large desert region by blocking clouds and moisture from falling on the eastern slopes. This rain shadow formed a formidable landscape that had to be crossed before settlers found homes along the Pacific coast with more rain and cooler temperatures. Trails forked near Fort Hall about 1300 miles from Independence, Missouri. The yellow cutoff road goes south to Sacramento, California. The main orange trail continues north along the Columbia River to the Oregon Territory. In 1854 Sarah Sutton found the Oregon branch of the trail less crowded than the cutoff. "Here we had to part with two good hands, that started for Calefornia. We were all loth to part with each other but the best of friends must part, such is life. What a great change in roads. Now the gras is near two feet high on each side of the road and not trampt down with stock. There is but few going to Oregon." The California bound followed the Humboldt River through the desert over the California mountains to Sacramento. From Independence to Sacramento was about 2000 miles. Daniel Jenks recorded the journey in his 1859 sketches, which can be viewed at the Library of Congress. Along the Humboldt A few details show clothing styles and romance. In memories of her 1847 trip Emma Ruth Ross Slavin told her family of romance and a honeymoon: "There was one marriage in our Co. After bride and groom retired to their wagon a party of men and boys hauled the wagon 1/2 mile from camp and left it there." The Humboldt River soon disappeared into the Humboldt Sink and travelers faced a stark obstacle, the 40 Mile Desert. On the other side: The legendary Pacific Coast. Currier & Ives print of California's coast. Women on their way to the California gold fields. By the time the immigrants arrived in their new homes they were worn out, malnourished, sunburnt and dressed in rags. During the first decades of the trail clothing was a valuable trade item. Coastal tribes were glad to trade salmon to hungry travelers for garments and blankets. In 1853 Mary Woodland in Oregon wrote her mother about her wardrobe: "Had it not been for trading our clothes with [Indians] we should have been hungry many a time. I parted with a good many of mine and threw the rest way so...I had no clothes at all when I got into Oregon...." Rocky Road to California by Becky Brown We recall the last grueling weeks of the trail with Rocky Road to California, a popular late-19th-century block. BlockBase #1693a with that name was published by the Ladies Art Company about 1890. I also once saw a sampler quilt with names stitched to each block. This one was called Home Queen. Different shadings have been published with different names, several having to do with travel. Cutting a 12" Block A - Cut 2 squares 4-1/2". B - Cut 4 squares 4-7/8". Cut each into 2 triangles with a diagonal cut. You need 8 triangles. C - Cut 12 squares 2-1/2". Sewing the Block Ragged and worn you may be but congratulations on arriving at the end of your journey. Read Mary Woodland's letters online here: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/Woodland_Letters1852.htm And Emma Ruth Ross Slavin's memoir; Pioneer of 1847 http://www.oregonpioneers.com/RossDiary1847.htm Daniel Jenks's drawings at the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=daniel%20jenks This is the last of the free patterns for Westering Women. I'll leave them up here on the CivilWarQuilts blog for the next six months or so. I'm going to turn them into downloadable PDF's and paper patterns that you can order from my Etsy Shop. I'll let you know when they are ready for purchase.

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* This page last updated January 2015 * This blog has morphed into a blog for my longarm business Dedicated to my customer's quilts and longarm design To see my quilt projects... visit Ramblin' Rows Moonbear's blog History My blog began in 2011 with a Civil War block of the week quilt. Barbara Brackman graciously set up a blog beginning January 2011 commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Each week Barbara provided a story from the history of the war as it happened 150 years ago accompanied with a quilt block made by Becky Brown that follows the story. Here is a link to Barbara Brackman's Civil War blog. Click here for the link to a Flickr site set up with photos of CW blocks and finished quilt tops made by quilters from all over the world. Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the USA. Barbara published a book about this project. Title: Civil War Sampler Included in the book are blocks made by participants of the BOW. Grapes of Wrath, Barbara Frietchie Star and Louisiana are three of my blocks that Barbara selected to be in her book! Exciting! I was honored to be asked and thankful to receive an autographed copy from Barbara Brackman. A CW quilt made by Rosemary Youngs is also included in the book. Cover quilt is made by Becki Brown A quilt was made for Barbara Brackman, of Civil War blocks made by The Circle of Friends, quilters participating in her BOW, myself included. Becky Brown pieced the top. Barbara was presented the quilt for Christmas 2011. This quilt is also in her book. Following are pix of blocks I made... 1 ~ Catch Me if You Can 2 ~ North Star 4 ~ Texas Tears 5 ~ Kansas Troubles 6 ~ Richmond 8 ~ Cotton Boll 9 ~ Birds in the Air 10 ~ Lincoln's Platform 11 ~ London Square 12 ~ Louisiana ~ in the Civil War Sampler book 13 ~ Little Blue Basket 14 ~ Fox and Geese 15 ~ Fort Sumter 25 ~ Calico Puzzle 26 ~ Barbara Frietchie Star ~ in the Civil War Sampler book 27 ~ Irish Chain 28 ~ Next Door Neighbor 29 ~ Railroad Crossing 34 ~ Rosebud 35 ~ Star of the West 36 ~ Kentucky Crossroads 37 ~ Confederate Rose 38 ~ Ohio Star 39 ~ Hovering Hawks 42 ~ H is for Hospital 44 ~ Union 45 ~ Port and Starboard 46 ~ Apple Tree 47 ~ Dixie Tea 48 ~ West Virginia 49 ~ Yankee Puzzle 50 ~ Grapes of Wrath ~ in the Civil War Sampler book Visit my personal quilting blog at Ramblin' Rows Thank you :0) Enjoy your day stitching away

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I have been wanting to make these since I first read Little Women. It made no sense to me. The kids I knew hated limes. Why would anyone want to eat these? Was it a dare? Were they showing how tough they were by consuming them? I really didn't know then and still didn't know until now.

This 3-page file includes: ~A biography about Rigoberta Menchú, the Guatemalan indigenous woman from a poor background who went on to world fame as a human rights activist. This reading covers a bit about her family life and background, the Guatemalan Civil War, her exile to Mexico, the publication of her famous novel, her Nobel peace prize win and finally her work with the UN. ~A worksheet with 10 reading comprehension questions in Spanish. ~Answer Key. Level: Spanish 2+ (mostly past tenses)

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Westering Women: Block 2 Indian By Becky Brown St Joseph, Missouri, was another boom town that supplied western travelers with wagons, oxen and food for the trip across the continent, another of what were called "Jumping Off Places." Hilly St. Joseph overlooked the Missouri River and the territories beyond. In June, 1847, Elizabeth Dixon Smith recorded her first day beyond the U.S. in her diary: "Passed through St. Joseph on the bank of the Missouri. Laid in our flour, cheese and crackers and medicine for no one should travel this road without medicine for they are almost sure to have the summer complaint.... [The next day] Crossed the Missouri. Doubled teams with difficulty ascended a hill or mountain. Traveled 3 miles and encamped. We are now in Indian territories." Kansas and Nebraska were Indian Territory in the 1840s and into the 1850s. Travelers tempted to try to settle the pretty countryside west of Missouri had to keep moving. George Catlin's map shows the reserves assigned to the various Eastern tribes west of the Missouri border (the brighter horizontal strips). The green stripe was the reserve assigned to the Kickapoo, moved west from the Great Lakes. Below them the narrow yellow strip was assigned to the Delaware people moved from their original lands in New York and New Jersey. The tan-colored area was the traditional home of native tribes. From a period map drawn on linen The land was promised forever to native tribes like the Kansas and the Osage and to resettled Eastern tribes like the Shawnee. George Catlin, painting of Wáh-chee-te, Wife of Cler-mónt, and Child, 1834 Osage/Wa-zha-zhe I-e. Collection of the Smithsonian Institution The Smith party made only three miles that first day because they had to wait to cross the Wolf River. The next day they traveled at a more typical pace covering 18 miles. Albert Bierstadt painted the ford at the Wolf River west of St. Joseph. The tribes who camped at the passages often charged a toll fee to cross. The bank may have looked like "a hill or mountain" to Elizabeth Dixon Smith, but wagons crossed these small rivers (we call them creeks today) at the lowest and most stable spots. From the collection of the Kansas State Historical Society In 1859 Beirstadt's brothers took a photo of the ford at Wolf River--- painters and diarists might exaggerate for drama's sake. Block 2, Indian By Denniele Bohannon We can recall the pre-Civil War years when half the United States was home to native tribes with a block called Indian. Quilt designers in the 1930s named several blocks in variations of the word Indian, primarily because the quilt pattern looked like something one might find in a Navajo rug or a pueblo pot. Nancy Page in her fictional syndicated quilt club named this one, which is BlockBase #2050 Cutting a 12" Block A - Cut 4 squares 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" B - Cut 4 light and 4 dark squares 3-7/8" Cut each into 2 triangles with a diagonal cut. You need 8 triangles. C - Cut 1 square 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" Sewing the Block Martha Spence Haywood about the time of her journey in the 1850s One of the very few references I found to quiltmaking on the trails was in Martha Spence Haywood's journal. She peeked into a tent in a Native American settlement near Fort Laramie and saw several women working: "One was making patchwork." Martha Spence Haywood's journal was published in Not By Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spence Haywood, 1850-56 (Utah State Historical Society, 1978). Elizabeth Dixon Smith's was published in T.T. Geer's Fifty Years in Oregon in 1912. Read it online at this link: http://www.theragens.com/fifty_years/fifty_years_in_oregon_18-19.htm Block 2 Indian By Linda Mooney

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