Mable and her husband planned to travel by covered wagon to California in the 1860′s. Their family included an infant girl, and two toddler girls. Disaster occurred in Kansas City: Mable’s infant becaMable and her husband planned to travel by covered wagon to California in the 1860′s. Their family included an infant girl, and two toddler girls. Disaster occurred in Kansas City: Mable’s infant became ill and her husband ran off with a young Indian woman. Mable sent the infant back to family in Illinois (she would later become Mrs. Frank Dunn’s), and the determined Mable and her toddler-girls continued westward in the covered wagon through hostile country where they survived savage indians and ruthless cowboys that beset upon the caravan. Many men and women died during this perilous journey to California and the Pacific Ocean. My grim portrait of Mable was taken sometime after the family’s arrival in southern California where Mable established a horse and cattle ranch. Mable was probably never pretty, but survivor warriors hardly ever are....more