Denver, Colo, March 8th 1934

My Dear Captain.

This evenings Denver Post has a news item which says the citizens of Columbus are celebrating the 75th anniversary of your arrival there. Wish I was there too for I remember you, your brother Major Frank North and Jim Cushing very distinctly. As you three moved our family across the Lough River at Columbus in October 1867. We were moving, with two covered wagons, our household goods, and two cows, and least in the stature, but no in value, a most wonderful bulldog from Iowa to Chapman, Neb We were laid up on the east bank of the river 48 hours, when you ferrymen decided to dismantle the wagon and carry the goods and family across We were all safely landed on the west bank in a few hours, and the memory of it all is still very vivid.

In 1874 I taught school at Silver Creek, and boarded some weeks at the same house with Jim Cushing. I suppose I am one of the few left that you three piloted across the river, for surely that was a long time ago, and it was not many years till the bridge was built, so the quick sands ceased their troubling of the immigrants

Wishing you many more years of life and prosperity

Sincerely your friend in old memories,

Lucy Beery Whitman
555 High St
Denver, Colo.