Mary Walker Speaking Tour

Most of my work lately on Mary has been research and some work on the book. This week I am going to be doing a speaking tour for home school students and parents. We will start at the site of Mary Walker's home at Tshimikan near Spokane, WA. We will folow the route she rode, still sidesaddle as she had ridden across the United States, to visit the nearest neighbors. It was 70 miles and involved an overnight camp stop. She will meet Jane Klyne McDonald, a fur traders wife and her family. Mary and the other missionary woman who will live at Tshimikan, Myra Eells, will stay with the McDonalds for six weeks while the rough huts will be made more livable. (They never did have wood floors, windows or stoves in their ten year residence).