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Wagon Tracks Volume 12 Article 1 Issue 3 Wagon Tracks Volume 12, Issue 3 (May 1998) 1998 Wagon Tracks. Volume 12, Issue 3 (May, 1998) Santa Fe Trail Association Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Santa Fe Trail Association. "Wagon Tracks. Volume 12, Issue 3 (May, 1998)." Wagon Tracks 12, 3 (1998). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol12/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wagon Tracks by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : Wagon Tracks. Volume 12, Issue 3 (May, 1998) NTRA VOLUME 12 MAY 1998 NANCY LEWIS JOINS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. NANCY Lewis, Blue Springs, MO, was elected by the board of directors on April 18 to fill the vacancy ofMis souri director created by the resigna tion of Pauline Fowl~r. A native of Sibley, MO, Nancy grew up on the bluffs of the Missouri River not far from historic Fort Osage. She cur TOLL-FREE NUMBER FOR WAGON rently serves as vice-president ofthe TRACKS AND LAST CHANCE STORE Missouri River Outfitters Chapter. 1-888-321-7341 She and husband Don have two grown children, love to travel west DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE ern trails (have followed the Santa JULY 20, 1998 Fe and Oregon trails), and present programs on women pIOneers. LINDA. REVELLO. IS SFTA'. Nancy has taught American his OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR tory for 30 years, the last 27 years at Truman High School in Independ LINDA Revello, Larned, has been ence. She developed and offers a hired to replace Yvonne McIntosh as class for adults entitled "Jackson headquarters office administrator. STANDING OUT WOMAN, County: Trails West." In 1995 and Yvonne, who served as an unpaid by Richard W. Godin . 1996 she was selected by the Trails volunteer and contributed over 2,000 (SFTA member Godin, Woonsocket, West Committee of Independence to hours to SFTA, moved from Larned RI, has written about the Bent family represent the city and the school dis to Overland Park, KS, in February. and contributed to WT. He continues trict in a teacher exchange with Ore A resolution of appreciation for her to search for information about the gon City, OR. While in Oregon she work is included in this issue. progeny of William Bent an,d' h~s studied the Oregon Trail and pre Revello is the first paid employee Cheyenne wives. The followmg ~s sented more than 40 programs about to serve the SFTA headquarters of partly an erratum to his "More De women who went west. This year she fice. She usually is in the office at the scendants of William Bent," WT, IV was named Missouri Social Studies Santa Fe Trail Center on Tuesday G1,ug. 1990): 7.) . Teacher of the Year. and Thursday (316) 285-2054. Her FURTHER research on the Bents The role of women in the West is duties include processing member has revealed additional information .one of her favorite topics. She ships, bookkeeping, filing, data proc , about Standing Out Woman, George dresses in period costume and pres essing, and other responsibilities as Bent's Northern Cheyenne wife. She ents the story of pioneer women. signed by Sec/Treasurer Ruth Olson was the daughter of Coyote Ear and Recently, with Jane and Anne Mal Peters. Please contact her with ques I•. Miahke Vehoi (White Old Woman),l , linson, Nancy helped create a 50 tions about membership. born in late winter/early spring of minute video, "Petticoat Pioneers Linda formerly served as budget Women Who Made a Difference." 1857 in one of the Northern Chey analyst with the National Marine enne camps on Turkey Creek (Solo Lewis is also involved with the In Fisheries Service in Beaufort, North mon River).2 dependence Attractions Coalition, in Carolina. She also worked part time Her family's rule of residence ap which she is engaged in a project to with the Beaufort HistoricalAssocia pears to·have been matrilocal.3 This educate volunteers in a knowledge of tion, conducting guided tours is all the more revealing when one historic sites in the Independence through their six historic buildings, considers the historical exploits of area. Anyone who completes the pro and for several years also served as her maternal uncles, Two Moon and gram becomes a certified "local tour the education coordinator. She at Beaver Claws, both chiefs in their guide." tended the SFTA board meeting in soldier societies, the Kit Foxes and April. Her husband, Felix, is Chief Education is a primary obective of Crazy Dogs respectively. Her cousin, SFTA. This active educator isa pro Ranger at Fort Larned National His pitious addition. Welcome Nancy! toric Site. Welcome Linda! (continued on page 15) May 1998 1 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1998 1 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 12 [1998], Iss. 3, Art. 1 . PRESIDENT'S COLUMN mitteechair, emphasized the need to All matters relating to Wagon expand membership. While there Tracks should be directed to SFTA APRIL 18 was not a balmy day in may be 'a perception that the Inter Editor Leo E. Oliva, PO Box 31, Santa Fe nor was there much evi net is the "way to go," direct contact Woodston KS 67675. dence of spring, but the activity and still remains the most viable recruit Telephone: (888) 321-7341 spirit ofthe governing board meeting ment tool. FAX: (785) 425-6865 was bursting with spring-fresh Education Committee's plate is E-Mail: [email protected] ideas. The minutes of the meeting full to overflowing. Karla French will Headquarters ofthe Santa Fe Trail Association are located at the office and the 1997 financial statement go _into greater detail in her "Fort ofSecretary-Treasurer Ruth Olson will not be available until the August Learned" column. Increasing the Peters. Santa Fe Trail Center, RR issue of Wagon Tracks, but there is number of school libraries presently 3, Larned KS 67550. much you should know now, thus receiving Wagon Tracks, depositing , Telephone: (316) 285-2054 this column will capsulize the day's Dave Webb's Adventures With the FAX: (316) 285-7491 E-Mail: [email protected] events. Santa Fe Trail in all Trail states' • , The board adopted a charitable public schools, and, of course, the WAGON TRACKS is the official publication of the Santa Fe Trail donations plan whereby m~mbers Internet are in, the middle of the Association, a nonprofit organiza plate. ami friends may remember SFTA in tion incorporated under the laws of J their estate planning. When final Ideas are flowing from the Head the State of Colorado. Letters and ized, the plan will be promulgated quarters Plan Task Force. Joanne articles are welcome, but they be come the property of WT and may through various Association mail VanCoevern reported on the Task be edited or abridged at the editor's ings. Ross Marshall was appointed Force's meeting on April 17 which discretion. All rights reserved. An temporarily to represent us in the produced a variety of considerations nual subscriptions are.obtained Partnership for National TrailsSys for the -long and short term. The through membership in the Asso Task Force is looking at additional ciation, whose dues are fixed per tem, an alliance of 16 trail organiza calendar year. Checks should be tions who work to support scenic and office equipment needs and an ex made payable to the Santa Fe Trail historic trails, with a heavy focus on panded paid staffing plan. We must Association and sent to the secre strengthening, Congressional com wait until September for the fully tary-treasurer. mitment to all trails in the federal drawn plan. To a related matter, Ste Membership Categories trails system. A policy covering all phen Whitmore is exploring Associa Benefactor $1,000 aspects of our participation in PNTS tion liability insurance, and should Patron $100/year and the process for appointing our have quotations ready in September. Institutional $40/year representative is scheduled for the The Rendezvous 1998 program Family $30/year Individual $25/year September board meeting. generated much enthusiasm (see in Youth (18 & under) $15/year sert). Lots of music and dance-we Mapping of the Trail took a giant Editor: Leo E. Oliva, PO Box 31. step forward when mapping-train. will fandango. SFTA will field a Woodston KS 67675 (888) 321 ing workshops were approved, with baseball team, so you "boys of sum 7341, FAX (785) 425-6865 SFTA underwriting the cost. The mer" get in shape. Ruth Peters is President: Margaret Sears, 1871 workshop schedule is outstanding, signing up recruits; give her a call. Candela, Santa Fe NM 87505 (505) and includes didactics, field exer David Gaines enumerated the 473-3124 Vice-President: Samuel Arnold, cises, and marking assistance. Phil many activities underway at the Na 2221 S Fillmore St, Denver CO Petersen has already notified all tional Park Service. A fabricator for 80210 (303) 753-9161 _ chapters. Hopefully, workshops will .the Trail crossing decals has been se Secretary-Treasurer: Ruth Ol be up and running before summer lected, and these should be available son Peters, Santa Fe Trail Center, solstice. Who will be the first to at the Last Chance Store in 30-60 RR 3, Larned KS 67550 (316) 285 2054, FAX (316) 285-7491 schedule one? The board reviewed days. There is need for a more de 1999 Symposium Coordinator: the marker committee guidelines fined liaison between SFTA and NPS Jim Selby, 200 N Chautauqua, and forms. It was agreed that while to strengthen the partnership.