He had a cow, a hog, two old horses, and sixty dollars in money. Not enough for carfare for himself and wife, but he managed to arrange to go as caretaker of one of the cars, and that gave him free passage, while the money enabled the wife to travel with the others.

.Mrs. Scamahorn, who still lives (1921) at Gordon, had in her Indiana home a new, upholstered parlor set, which she felt she would

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not need in her western home. A young lady of her home town was about to be married, and she was the owner of a full blood Holstein cow. Mrs. Scamahorn and the young lady met and talked tilings over with the result that the cow was added to the Scamahorn possessions, and the furniture went into the home of the bride to be. Mr. Scamahorn managed also to secure a yoke of oxen in place of his old team. The colony went into camp at Valentine, until they could make their land entries, Valentine still being the terminus of the railroad in March, 1884. From here they made their overland trip to near where Gordon now stands and here most of them made their permanent abiding place. Mr. Scamahorn drove the oxen, which being slower than horses, gave him and his wife much of the drive alone, but usually at night they would overtake the balance of the party, for while the others had to put up tents and make down beds, their bed was in the wagon.