By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 29, 2018 From the Relief Society Magazine, 1944-45 – Forward, Without Fear By Dorothy Clapp Robinson Chapter One It was early afternoon of a June day in 1844. The River Maid finishing her journey up from New Orleans was disgorging her passengers and freight. On a newly constructed pier Ann Kristin Mortensen watched with lively interest, impervious to the heat that wrapped about her like a sticky blanke...
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