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“ In 1904, at the age of 81, [my mother] returned to Missouri on a visit. But how different the journey of 1857, with the perilous sea voyage. Now, after a lapse of more than fifty years, the traveller enjoys the luxury of a palace car, by locomotives over a great highway, climbing mountains, leaping chasms, speeding through canyons, in sight of the most magnificent scenery in the world. Mrs. McMahan made the trip in four days. In a half century she has lived to see a great transformation, giant strides of advancement and a great development and growth of civilized power. ”
Ellen Lavinia McMahan on her mother, Anna Yount Reed McMahan
arrived in 1851 via from Indiana