The Brooklyn, a sailing ship, left New York City in 1846 for a voyage around South America to finally reach the destination of Yerba Buena which was the name of San Francisco before it became part of the United States of America. The voyage was a six month sailing hell.
Elmer Bentonite was a descendant of the brave people who in their desperation to flee the squalid circumstances of the industrial revolution, sailed away from New York City. John Atlantic Burr, was born aboard the ship and he survived to grow into a prosperous individual who helped to build San Francisco and then later moved back toward the eastern United States. It seems that wanderlust is in the genes of Elmer Bentonite.
Going in circles and willing to risk anything in adventure, having a keen interest in artifacts along with his knowledge of geology, to Elmer, it seems he had it all.
His family, he left them behind on the farm. He loved them, yes he did, and they knew that one day, maybe, he might settle down.
He came at the world with fresh eyes every solitary day.
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| c. 1906 Postal Card She is the one who looks angry. |
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| I treed a bear on the only tree for miles. I put upon my face a Kachina Mask. He was screaming a roar. I jumped on my horse and high-tailed it. c. 1906 Back side of card says above The Bird on the horn of a saddle xoxo |
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