William and Jean Herrick: Pioneering New Mexicans

"Over one hundred years ago to get from Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Mount Vernon, Ohio, to New Mexico, you had to walk, ride or drive a team of horses or board a train." So opens this account of William and Jean Herrick's journey to settle in an area of our country that was at that time still the "Wild West." With a life that kept them apart for many years, Will and Jean told in their letters of how time moved at a different pace than today, where one can be on the other s...