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What's his name

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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Listers:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>from:</FONT></DIV>
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href=3D"http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/crossi=
ng/Rubedeaux.htm">http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/oregon_tr=
ail/crossing/Rubedeaux.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<P><B><FONT size=3D+3>From "Into the Eye of The Setting Sun"</FONT><FONT =

size=3D+2> by Charlotte Matheny=20
Kirkwood used by permission</CENTER>
<BLOCKQUOTE>      Mr. =
Rubedeaux's=20
 wife was dead and he had a large family of little children.  The =
eldest=20
 of the six or seven was only about twelve years old.  She was a =
tattered,=20
 barefooted little girl and very freckled.  I remember the =
freckles=20
 especially, I thought they were nice.  She was a fine little =
worker, SELF=20
 RELIANT, the mainstay of her father.  Everyone admired her, even =
the men=20
 of our party were glad to give her a "lift" when she needed=20
 it.=20
      Mr. Rubedeaux walked =
beside the=20
 oxen, and the wagon bristling with little heads.  The little =
girl, I have=20
 forgotten her name, walked and drove the loose cattle.  Getting =
started=20
 of a morning with loose cattle everywhere was not an easy task for=20
 anyone.  This small girl with her whip, took her equal and =
effective part=20
 in the general commotion, cracking her whip and talking to her little =
herd of=20
 lean oxen, some cows and a calf or two.=20

  <P><B><FONT size=3D+1>  I remember her as we passed through the =
snake river=20
  country.  There were rocks everywhere, and I noticed that she=20
  limped.  I was sorry for her.  I would have given her my =
shoes, if=20
  she could have worn them.  The fact that I was without shoes, =
myself=20
  might possibly have prevented such an act of charity, even though her =
feet had=20
  been larger than mine.  I wonder now, why someone did not lend =
her a=20
  horse.  Plenty of them were driven loose, or were led tied to the =
backs=20
  of the wagons.  Perhaps she had refused one, I do not know about=20
  that.  I know that she walked most, if not all of the way and =
drove her=20
  herd of cattle.  She drove them as though she liked it and was =
glad=20
  to.  Everyone helped her when she needed it.</FONT></B><B><FONT=20
  size=3D+1></FONT></B>=20
  <P><B><FONT size=3D+1>     One day a band of =
Indians came to=20
  us and rode along beside us for a ways.  One of them in passing =
the small=20
  girl, grabbed the ox whip from her hands and dashed away with =
it.  That=20
  whip was dear to her, she clutched at it and screamed.  Her =
father=20
  bounded toward her, but he was too late.  The whip was =
gone.  His=20
  face was so red and angry.  I remember seeing him pick up a rock =
and=20
  heave it with all his might after the laughing, galloping =
Indian.  The=20
  rock was as big as my head it could not have carried twenty=20
  feet.</FONT></B><B><FONT size=3D+1></FONT></B>=20
  <P><B><FONT size=3D+1>     I do not know what =
became of Mr.=20
  Rubedeaux and his flock of little motherless children.  We  =
never=20
  saw them again after we separated from them at The Dalles of the =
Columbia, but=20
  when I think of that little girl, I know that in her was the making of =
a fine,=20
  fine woman.</FONT></B></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT size=3D4>From wet San Diego,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3D4>What's his name</FONT></P>
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