daring

Milton was working for a Mr. Tippets on a sheep ranch out by Powell, Wyo. Mr. Tippets had a brother on a ranch close by and he wanted a girl to help his wife, who had a new baby, so Milton took me out there to help her. I worked all week and then Milton would take me home for the weekends.

One Sunday I gather up the kids, Bob, Charlie and Gene and had Alta and Edith, the boys had some friend along, and we got in the wagon with a lunch and started up to Cripple Creek for a Picnic, I think it was about five or six miles.

While we were there playing and having our picnic, three young men rode up to us on horse back and of course we invited them to eat. and you know when boys meet girls things happen. While we were enjoying ourselves the kids wanted to go home and I was not ready, so they started to walk home. It was getting along toward evening and we started to go home when the boys asked us to go to the ranch and we would have a dance. Well Alta did not want to go, she said she had to go home or her mother would kill her, so I hooked up the team and started her home alone. The boys said they would take Edith and I home in a car. I had to be out to the ranch Monday morning so they said they would drive me out there.

I heard later that the team got away from Alta. When she got home, the seat had fell down in the middle of the wagon, the rains were dragging on the ground and she was setting in the middle of the wagon crying. The horses went home by themselves.

In the mean time Edith and I went to the ranch house and we danced with them boys till midnight and finely I got then to take us home. We left Edith off at the house and I told her to tell Papa and Mama that I was walking to the ranch, which was about 20 miles from home.

Papa got worried and got on one of the horses bareback and started out on the road to over take me, after papa had left mother finely got it out of Edith what I had done, so Mother started out on foot after papa. Papa decided he could not find me so he turned around and started home when he runs into mother. It was morning when they got home.

I never went home the next weekend but Don did. He was working on the ranch where Milton works, and he told me what had happened and said I had a good whipping coming. Papa had to carry a cushion whenever he set down, but when I got home Dad never said a word to me.