The Family Can Write

Horatio Pickett's half brother, "Sanjo" came overland as a 10-year-old with his mother Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett. He writes: "Leaving here the road begins to get rough. We are nearing the `Rockies'. When we arrive at Devil's Gate we find another `squaw-man' camp [traders]. Many people don't know what a squaw-man is like. He may have sprung from a good family, but my! how he has fallen. His costume consists of a greasy slouch hat, long hair and beard `a la Buffalo Bill', an old dirty over-shirt and buckskin pants, a butcher knife and revolver in his belt, and moccasins on his feet. Then here's the handsome bride — red lady of the forest, with a herd of red headed papooses running around without any fig leaves on. The squaw is robed in a dirty old buckskin gown, with perhaps a few beads worked on it. All stand in front of their skin lodge gazing at the passer-by."

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Lorna Hall Flater and Ann Pickett Hall

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Craig Neilson

Ridem' Broncos, taking after his Grandpa Pete Neilson, the Rodeo Star. YeeHaw.

Philena Hunt Pickett

When Horatio Pickett's 1st wife died, he still had young ones at home, so he married Philena Hunt (dau. of Isaac Hunt and Ann Newling).

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