was only sixteen, but she brought every man safely through an
experience of almost unparalleled hardship and danger, nursing them
in sickness and setting them an example of unfaltering courage and
endurance, until she stood at last on the Pacific coast, where her
statue stands now, pointing to the wide sweep of the Columbia River as
it flows into the sea.

This recognition by women is the only recognition she ever received.
Both Lewis and Clark were sincerely grateful to her and warmly
recommended her to the government for reward; but the government allowed
her absolutely nothing, though each man in the party she had led was
given a large tract of land. Tradition says that she was bitterly
disappointed, as well she might have been, and her Indian brain must
have been sadly puzzled. But she was treated little worse than thousands
of the white pioneer women who have followed her; and standing: there
to-day on the bank of her river, she still seems sorrowfully reflective
over the strange ways of the nation she so nobly served.

The Oregon campaign of 1906 was the carrying out of one of Miss
Anthony's dearest wishes, and we who loved her set about this work soon
after her death. In the autumn preceding her passing, headquarters had
been established in Oregon, and Miss Laura Gregg had been placed in
charge, with Miss Gale Laughlin as her associate. As the money for this
effort was raised by the National Association, it was decided, after
some discussion, to let the National Association develop the work in
Oregon, which was admittedly a hard state to carry and full of possible
difficulties which soon became actual ones.

As a beginning, the Legislature had failed to submit an amendment; but
as the initiative and referendum was the law in Oregon, the amendment
was submitted through initiative patent. The task of securing the
necessary signatures was not an easy one, but at last a sufficient
number of signatures were secured and verified, and the authorities
issued the necessary proclamation for the vote, which was to take place
at a special election held on the 5th of June. Our campaign work had
been carried on as extensively as possible, but the distances were great
and the workers few, and as a result of the strain upon her Miss Gregg's
health soon failed alarmingly.

All this was happening during Miss Anthony's last illness, and it added
greatly to our anxieties.

She instructed me to go to Oregon immediately after he