Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
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Got into the Hanistown sleeper at 10 P.M. The train is to start at 2 A.M. Tuesday March 7 - 1922 Left for Hanistown at 7.30 A.M. Had breakfast and at 8 was off for Pittsburg, It is dark this morning and raining. The Susquehanna and the Juniata are in flood and very yellow. A little snow lies on the mountain tips. It is raining once and once and before getting to the top of the Horseshour Curve it is pouring very wet. So it does all the way to Pittsburg, where it is damp and cold, colder than at New Haven. Left for Pittsburg 10 min. later or at 3 P.M. Had dinner and a shave, and then at 5 P.M., I was off for St. Louis, Mo. Leaving Pittsburg it begins to clear