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2 this whole country was an Indian wilderness. We arrived at Fort Worth at 6? , and found my nephew awaiting us. He ordered
carriage and went with us out to a fine new hotel diacritic recently completed, where we were very comfortably entertained,
and had a magnifficent view of the City and surrounding country. The City. The city is beautifully located, and is considered
to be a very healthy place Here I recognized one of our old camping grounds of 49. From Fort Worth down to Harvey-Grove 150
miles, is almost one unbroken field of cotton and corn, with here and there fine groves of oak timber. On the cars I was introduced
to the renowned congressman, Mills, a white haired dignified old gentleman. Came near seeing Gov. Hogg, but didn t. On all
the trains? in this country, one car is set apart for the negros, who are required by law to 3 occupy it when traveling,
and the whites are not permitted to enter it. This car adjoined ours, and it so happened that day that many people were returning
from a Sunday-school convention, and our car was so crowded that several men had to stand up, Lacy? among the rest. I said
to him, why in the world did they not go into the negro car and get seats, as there was plenty of room, but he said they would
be ordered out, as the whites are not allowed this privilege. Georgie and I had a good laugh over it, and I presume the negros
did, for they seemed very hilarious. We were ushered into Honey-Grove by a severe rain-storm, at 2 o clock when the train
stopped the rain came one, and continued all night with thunder and lighting. I will tell in my next about my reception here.
With much love to all. L. E. Strentzel.