Jordan, Part 4: “Somewhere West of Laramie”
Continued from Part 3
Ned Jordan spent July 4th, 1923 at his Rhode Island summer home, watching his daughter Jane perform tricks on a salty pony: “That child could ride—well enough to win prizes at rodeos….
Three days later, on the Overland Limited, bound for San Francisco. A chat, at about dusk, with Mr. Austin, a New York lawyer, in the forward end of the lounge car. We passed some station in Wyoming, too late to catch the sign. Just then a husky somebody whirled up on a rarin’ cayoose…he, acting as if he’d never seen a Union Pacific train.…