Spring

It would have been – more of a true hiking trail, kind of up a, like more of a mountain area and like an overlook, but ended up going to the Southern one.

But I ended up at these two almost like, uh, back in an area where there were, there were Springs, you know, like, uh, kind of rivers and Springs and that sort of thing.

Just inadvertently, that's the trails I went to this time, which I'd been to other ones, but, um, You know, as I'm on these trails, and I mean, I've been to Missouri a lot.

You know, this time here, Osage Beach, six or seven times, Branson a couple of times.

I don't even know how to explain it.

There there's like this thing to look at these bluffs, these cliffs and these cutouts or whatever it is.

Then there's these Springs and then it might be a waterfall.

And then there's a regular, it just, they're great.

Below the picture it said, "Yours for health," and in the body of the blotter, in red lettering, "Your system absorbs the health-giving drugs in Hope Spring's water as this blotter soaks up ink." The yours for health was my idea.

I have been spring house girl at Hope Spring Sanatorium for fourteen years.

My father had the position before me, but he took rheumatism, and as the old doctor said, it was bad business policy to spend thousands of dollars in advertising that Hope Springs water cured rheumatism, and then have Father creaking like a rusty hinge every time he bent over to fill a glass with it.

Father gave me one piece of advice the day he turned the springhouse over to me.

"It is a difficult situation, my girl,"

It was you who persuaded me not to, Minnie."

And all that winter, with the papers full of rumors that Miss Patty Jennings was going to marry a prince, we'd followed it by the springhouse fire, the old doctor and I, getting angry at the Austrian emperor for opposing it when we knew how much too good Miss Patty was for any foreigner, and then getting nervous and fussed when we read that the prince's mother was in favor of the match, and it might go through.

Miss Patty and her father came every winter to Hope Springs, and I couldn't have been more anxious about it if she had been my own sister.

It's about a 20 mile water carry unless you're careful in it.

After a winter, like we had here in the west, it probably is a 20 mile water query, but there's some, there's a few little Springs and stuff you can find, but most of the trail is over 10,000 foot level.

So, you know, if people are coming from the coastline or down lower altitude, McKee draws probably.

have a day or so to get acclimated before they get up into that 10,000 foot level.

I think, and this is an important point too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural native American Springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say where they're not, um, just natural Springs anymore.

They're these, um,

bath houses,

I think, and this is an important point too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural native American Springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say where they're not, um, just natural Springs anymore.

They're these, um,

bath houses,

I think, and this is an important point too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural native American Springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say where they're not, um, just natural Springs anymore.

They're these, um,

bath houses,

I think, and this is an important point too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural native American Springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say where they're not, um, just natural Springs anymore.

They're these, um,

bath houses,

I think, and this is an important point too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural native American Springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say where they're not, um, just natural Springs anymore.

They're these, um,

bath houses,