I think I told you about the first time I saw a steam engine==this day we started from that place to go to N.C. that place was Mountain Grove,mo. got a seat on the train in a box car this was 1924 we could not sit with white people==I didn't know just how big this country is==this train went to the river then went north just north of Memphis we got a flat bottom river boat to get across the Miss.river=I was already getting some sore legs ==we ate real good good SHADOW BEAR