Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — 1,500 Miles on Horseback [ARTICLE]

1,500 Miles on Horseback

Mis* Virginia Vance, Young School Teacher, Starts on Vacation Trip From Washington Town. Spokane, Wash. —Fifteen hundred miles on horseback is the summer vacation trip to terminate at Phoenix. Ari*., on which Miss Virginia Vance, * young school teacher, has started from Kennewick, Wash. Her father and brothers accompany her in a covered wagon and carry supplies and camp equipment, and Mrs. Vance and two younger children are to travel by water and rail to Fresno, Cal., to remain there until next fall, when they will join the restof the family at Phoenix. Miss Vance has selected a route to the southwest through Oregon, Nevada and Arizona by way of Pendleton to Lakeview, thence to Crater lake and into Nevada, keeping near the California line and following the canyon of the Colorado river In Arizona. No effort will be made to establish a record, nor will Miss Vance offer souvenirs or photographs for sale to cover the expenses of the trip. Traveling overland through picturesque scenery tn almost the same style as the early settlers came into the western country will, she be-

lives, be an Interesting and valuable experience. The little party will sleep in the open, cooking at camp fires and stopping occasionally to hunt and fish. It Is also planned to make detours into the surrounding country along the California border. **l have been planning this trip for a long time,” Miss Vance said, "but the opportunity to make it was not offered until my parents decided to make their future home in Arizona.”