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Introduction
I WAS TIRED of it all. Although I was not longing for adventure
especially, I did crave a change of scenery. Teaching in the coun-
try and village schools of Monroe, Michigan, was all right as far as
it went, but it was too limiting, too monotonous a life. This,
added to low pay and hard work, had created a situation from
which I wanted to escape. When the opportunity came, I seized
it eagerly. I took the civil service examination for teachers in the
Government Indian Service, passed and was given an appoint-
ment to an Indian school in eastern Oregon.
I was elated. Here was everything: a salary twice what I was
getting, with the promise of an increase; a chance to study human
types in which I had always been interested; opportunity to travel
and see something of the country.
But when the time came, it was not easy. I had never been
away from home for a longer period than a few weeks at a time, so
naturally I shrank from the very thought of leaving family and
friends to live among complete strangers. And no vacation for
two years! Fortunately there was little time to brood and lose my
courage. Within three days after receiving the appointment, my
preparations were made, and I was on my way west.
Fears followed me, however. There was Chicago looming up
like a dragon in the dark. I would surely get lost changing trains
in that metropolis. But time proved that all my anxieties had
been groundless, for between railroad officials and the Parmelee
bus people I was passed along like a piece of baggage insured for
safe delivery.
I breathed a sigh of relief, nevertheless, when I was finally on
the train which would take me, without further changes, on a
three-day journey straight to my destination.
I had restrained my grief at the parting from my family, but
now, with nothing immediate to worry about, I broke down in a
torrent of tears. The first day I was too downhearted to take any
pleasure whatever from the landscape that was speeding by the
window. Every swift mile only widened that perfectly terrible
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Golden, Gertrude. Red Moon Called Me: Memoirs of a Schoolteacher in the Government Indian Service, book, 1954; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1013927/m1/15/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .