Nothing Daunted (38 page)
Authors: Dorothy Wickenden
C
HAPTER 1:
O
VERLAND
J
OURNEY
One chronicler observed, “Prick South Street at one end”:
Chamberlain, 28.
They also reread the letter:
July 18, 1916.
there were few signs of life:
Greeley, “The American Desert,” in
An Overland Journey,
June 2, 1859.
Ros signed the register:
Guest Register # 78, July 26, 1916.
On a day:
Hunt, 24.
Modeled after the Campanile:
Interview with Debra Faulkner, historian, Brown Palace Hotel, July 20, 2009.
In his first day’s edition:
Rocky Mountain News,
April 23, 1859.
“the new El Dorado”:
Barney, 17.
Denver City became an indispensable:
Imagine a Great City: Denver at 150,
exhibition, November 22, 2008–Winter 2010, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO.
he reported on June 20, “we have tidings”:
“Gold in the Rocky Mountains,” in
An Overland Journey.
A month earlier, a man from Illinois, Daniel Blue:
Blue was saved by an Arapaho who carried him to his lodge, fed him, and took him to the nearest stagecoach stop. The story was also reported by Henry Villard, “To the Pike’s Peak Country in 1859 and Cannibalism on the Smoky Hill Route,”
Cincinnati Daily Commercial,
May 17, 1879, in Grinstead and Fogelberg, 9–11. Libeus Barney provided a fuller account, with some particularly lurid flourishes, 24–25.
One entrepreneur with grandiose ideas:
William J. Baker, “Brown’s Bluff,”
Empire Magazine,
December 28, 1958; “The Palace Henry Brown Built,”
Rocky Mountain News,
April 22, 1984.
The project took four years and cost $2 million:
Hunt, 34.
the Brown Palace already had been sandblasted:
Interview with Faulkner, July 20, 2009.
an 1880 tourists’ guide called it “an unknown land.” Denver society referred to it as “the wild country”:
Duane A. Smith, “A Land Unto Itself:
The Western Slope,” in Grinstead and Fogelberg, 135–46.
C
HAPTER 2:
T
HE
G
IRLS FROM
A
UBURN
And she never cooked a meal in her life:
Recollections of Mildred Woodruff, wife of Dorothy’s brother Douglas. Undated.
The Beardsley family and its connections:
“They Prospered with the Abundance,” account by the Auburn Fortnightly Club, seventy-fifth year, 1957, 24.
The many uses for cornstarch:
Ayers, 139;
Oswego Daily Times,
September 29, 1876; Monroe, 183–85.
At family gatherings, he produced jingles and poems he had written:
“A Reminiscence of My Father, George Underwood,” by Rosamond U. Carpenter, in Ruth Brown’s “The Abundant Life,” 11.
Dorothy’s great-uncle Nelson Beardsley later became a partner of Seward’s:
“Major Beardsley,”
Auburn Weekly Bulletin,
January 26, 1900; Obituary:
Nelson Beardsley,
Oswego Daily Palladium,
January 15, 1894.
One of her aunts, Mary Woodruff, was a good friend of Seward’s daughter Fanny:
Jennifer Haines, e-mail, January 18, 2011.
stunned by the crime:
Goodwin discusses the trial and its effect on Seward’s national political reputation, 85–87.
Seward was out of town, and Frances wrote to him with the news:
Letter from Frances to William Seward, August 21, 1847, William Henry Seward Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester.
but when Seward returned from Washington, his once disapproving neighbors referred to him:
“They Prospered with the Abundance,” 10.
One of Ros’s nieces:
Sheila Tucker, e-mail, April 21, 2010.
Presidents Johnson and Grant and General Custer:
Peter Wisbey, e-mail, September 7, 2010.
One summer, Dorothy’s extended family rented Willow Point:
Amy Dunning Underwood (1883–1960), who was married to Rosamond’s brother George Jr., wrote:
“The Hermon Woodruffs and Will Beardsley had it one summer. . . . Every Sunday morning we would meet and have an informal prayer meeting, as I remember, Mr. Woodruff usually conducted.” From an undated account, “Lake Life Flourished,” courtesy Leland Coalson.
whom an Auburn neighbor referred to as “a very dangerous woman”:
Penney and Livingston, 110.
Eliza was a tall, regal woman whose glorious black eyes:
Stanton,
Eighty Years and More,
435.
For two decades Eliza was the president:
David W. Connelly, “WEIU Helped Women Cope in Harsh World,”
Auburn Citizen,
March 2, 2009.
In 1911, when FDR was a twenty-nine-year-old state senator:
David W. Connelly, e-mail, October 18, 2010.
Auburn’s rapid growth from a quiet village:
Auburn and Its Prison: Both Sides of the Wall
, booklet for exhibition at the Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Summer 2003.
Anyone who broke the rule of silence was flogged with the “cat”:
Storke, 155.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visited the prison on behalf of the French government and reported: “. . . when the day is finished, and the prisoners have returned to their cells, the silence within these vast walls, which contain so many prisoners, is that of death” (Tocqueville and Beaumont, 32). Elam Lynds, who helped devise the system and carried a bullwhip, told them, “A prison director, especially if he’s an innovator, needs to be given absolute and assured authority. . . . I consider punishment by the whip as the most effective and also the most humane. . . .” (Damrosch, 57).
When he got out, he and a former prisoner:
Frederik R-L Osborne, Introduction,
Within Prison Walls,
2; Chamberlain, 261; Rose Field, “The Personality and the Work of Thomas Mott Osborne,” review of
There Is No Truce
in the
New York Times,
March 31, 1935.
Today, the Osborne Association runs treatment, educational, and vocational services in New York prisons; they also help ex-offenders find jobs and adjust to life after their release. Frederik Osborne, Thomas Mott Osborne’s grandson, is its president.
Her earliest memory, she told her grandchildren:
“Assassin Czolgosz Is Executed at Auburn,”
New York Times,
October 29, 1901. According to the
Times,
Czolgosz was buried in the prison cemetery, but a groundskeeper at Fort Hill Cemetery swore to Sheila Tucker, the Cayuga County historian, that he knew the gravesite.
reflecting the romantic Victorian view, called Logan “the best specimen”:
Henry Howe,
Historical Collections of Ohio, Volume 1,
Cincinnati:
Published by the State of Ohio, 960.
C
HAPTER 3:
“A
FUNNY, SCRAGGLY PLACE
”
“one of that peculiar and persevering class” . . . The
News
declared:
Rocky Mountain News,
December 30, 1874, and June 15, 1875.
A thin, obsessive scholar:
Foster, 246–52.
“very desirable that its resources be made known”:
Hayden to Columus Delano, Washington, D.C., January 27, 1873, L.S., Hayden Survey, R.G. 57, National Archives. Quoted in Goetzmann, 516.
He gave lectures in Washington and New York:
“Western Scenery:
Interesting Facts Concerning Our National Parks,”
New York Times,
April 16, 1874.
William Blackmore, a British investor in American ventures:
Foster, 229.
The most serious trouble between the settlers and the Utes:
For a lucid account of the influence of the Hayden
Atlas,
Milk Creek, the mining camps, and the White River Agency, see Sprague,
Colorado,
78–100.
“ ‘The gun no good’ ”:
Lou Smart’s letter, a vivid first-person description of her family’s dealings with the Utes, was written from Hot Sulphur Springs on November 2, 1879, and published in
History of Hayden & West Routt County,
2–7.
“My idea is that, unless removed”:
Young, 34.
A man named Ezekiel Shelton:
Robert S. Temple, in
History of Hayden & West Routt County,
282.
C
HAPTER 4:
“R
EFINED, INTELLIGENT GENTLEWOMEN
”
Seventy-five of Dorothy and Ros’s classmates:
Annual Report of the President for 1905/1906,
Smith College Archives.
One graduate wrote:
Elizabeth Spader Clark,
Class Book, Smith College, Nineteen Hundred and Nine,
169.
Addams had longed to go to Smith:
Knight, 20–21.
“influence in reforming the evils of society”:
“Last Will and Testament of Miss Sophia Smith, Late of Hatfield, Mass.” Smith College Archives.
President L. Clark Seelye wrote:
“Smith College,” Official Circular, No. 3, 1877, Smith College Archives.
“refined, intelligent gentlewomen”:
from “In Memory of Rosamond Underwood Carpenter.”
However, since most of them had “neither the call nor the competence”:
William Allen Neilson, 7.
After a week at Wood’s Hole in the summer of 1902:
Jane Kelly, “1880 Class Letters,” Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Smith’s entrance examinations, which included:
“Specifications of the Requirements for Admission,”
Catalogue of Smith College, Forty-Third Year, 1916–1917
. Smith College Archives.
Delta Sigma, which was, one of its founding members emphasized:
“Early Days of Delta Sigma Invitation House,” Esther M. Wyman, Class of 1911, January 1958, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Students were allowed to invite gentlemen:
Nanci Young, college archivist of Smith College Archives, e-mail, December 14, 2009.
“It was a fine opportunity . . . [Y]ou will not become the useless members”:
Springfield Republican,
June 14, 1909.
At the chapel exercises, President Seeyle spoke of the first Smith class:
Springfield Republican,
June 15, 1909.
C
HAPTER 5:
U
NFENCED
When he arrived at Princeton and read the “Freshman Bible”:
Carpenter,
Confessions,
33.
Farrington sounded like the name of an English resort town:
Ibid., 1.
In November 1904 he gave a speech in New York:
Startt, 46; Bragdon, 337–38.
He officially introduced it to the Board of Trustees:
Bragdon, “The Quad Fight Plan,” 312–36.
The prospect of not getting into a club:
Confessions,
38.
Wilson told Ferry, “Some of the wealthy New York and Pennsylvania people”:
Ibid., 40.
“To the country at large, his dispute with the Princeton clubs was analogous”:
Bragdon, 330.
telling his acolyte:
“At those great state institutions”:
letter from Carpenter to Bragdon, November 30, 1967. After Bragdon’s book was published, Carpenter sent him detailed responses to chapters as he read them. These letters are part of the Woodrow Wilson Collection, 1837–1986, Box 62, Folder 17, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library; Princeton University.
“When you go out into the world and have to make your own living”:
E. S. W. Kerr interview with Ferry Carpenter, June 6, 1967, Woodrow Wilson Collection, Princeton University.
Aristocracy, he informed a despondent Ferry Carpenter:
Confessions,
41.
Wilson had gotten to know Frederick Jackson Turner:
Bragdon, 194, 233, 236; E. David Cronon, “Woodrow Wilson, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,”
The Wisconsin Magazine of History,
vol. 71, no. 4 (Summer 1988), 296–300.
“They wore big black hats”:
Confessions,
4–15.
During a raid on Paint Creek:
The journalist was Hatton W. Sumners. “Charles Goodnight visits John B. Dawson on Dawson’s Ranch,” 1911, in Wilson, 28–29.
As one of Dawson’s granddaughters described it:
Wilson, 122.
The alfalfa was so high . . . “cure anything from gripes”:
Farrington Carpenter, oral history, OH 42, Colorado Historical Society.
In the Princeton library:
Confessions,
20.
As Carpenter recalled, Dawson “could read but he couldn’t write”:
OH 42.
Carpenter said he felt as if he had stumbled on a gold mine:
Confessions,
45–46.