Tom and Nancy Dougan ( below) left Indiana in 1855 on a wagon train to Northern Missouri.  Tom was severely burned on the journey and Nancy had to drive the team and lead the family through rough terrain to their new homestead on the Missouri Prairie.

                                                          Photos

                               Upper Left to right:  Henrietta Arra Dougan Berger,

                               Clara Elizabeth Berger Shay,  Pauline "Grannie" Nolte, 

                               Lower left to right: Jeanne Berger,  Henrietta Arra Dougan   

                                                  (Upper left with siblings)

                                                   Bottom:  Toni & Connie

                    "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,

                   you may as well make it dance."       

                                                                 George Bernard Shaw

                  "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience

                         of the people who produced him."    

                                            James Baldwin

                         "I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but

               the sunbonnet, as well as the sombrero, has helped

               to settle this glorious land of ours."

                                                                               Edna Ferber

                                        "Embrace the Vanished Glory"                                     

                 "Will Ye Go, Lassie?"; Trad. Irish; Midi Sequenced by Barry Taylor

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