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a covered wagon trip to “The Golden West.”
. . . Little less than a century later, Mrs. Frank Cooksey smiles wistfully as she recalls her mother’s tales of the six weeks, she, little Rhoda, brother Wayne, and father, were on the trail to Missouri. ''
When they left Sperryville, there were only 3 wagons housing Mr. and Mrs. William D. Mason and the two children; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mason, Rhoda’s grandparents; and an aunt and uncle. Along the way, the party joined other families until they formed a comfortably large unit. Mrs. Cooksey recalls that her mother told her of the “miles and miles” of wagons, that appeared like a giant caterpillar moving slowly toward the Golden West.
There was little that occurred that tasted of the unusual. Only in Maryland did the travelers run into bad weather, in the form of rain. One night, they spent with a Maryland family. (Mrs. Mason’s health had been poor before the trip and the cold rain did it little good.) There in the Maryland
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