<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;background-color:#ffffff; "><DIV>Thankyou for your post, good story, Thankyou again a link from your post has helped me finally find a ton of info!! Although we are not related a link from your post has stopped me from running into a brick wall hundreds of times, I have now broke through! THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU</DIV> <DIV>KATIE</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> cchouk</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:17 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> or-roots; Oregon Trail</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Omega & Alpha (from Aunt Charlottes book)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Walt may have a cow with this one, but it's the end and the beginning of</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Into The Eye of The Setting Sun". The link does jump to the middle of</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the page.... to a photo my wife took on our 2000 trip in the Potniac GT1.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So after looking into "The Eye of The Setting Sun", scroll back and read</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the rest.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don't forget that Aunt Charlottet crossed the Oregon Trail with my gr gr</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>grandfather, Nineveh Ford, in 1843.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>used by permission:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>" And so I sit here and tell these stories. I have seen them, each to his</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>own place, the thousand pioneers that I came with, Father, Mother, my</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sisters, the boys and all the rest. I am quite alone. For me the trail of </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the setting sun has proven a one way road, for I have lived my life almost</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>within sound of the surf. I am an old, old woman. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Thank you very kindly. <BR>Good Night" [I hope you have a sound card!]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/crossing/goodnight.htm#x"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/crossing/goodnight.htm#x</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cecil</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego CA 92153<BR>res San Diego CA 92154-3654<BR>NEW EMAIL ADDRESS mailto:cchouk@cox.net<BR>ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON<BR>Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk<BR>See also: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~donhouk<BR>My Web pages menu: http://members.cox.net/cchouk/</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>