about a 10,000-dollar wager and wagers were common in that era f she would only walk across america unescorted, she would get $10,000 which is over 200,000 in our time. that was a miracle to educate the children, keep the farm, they could stay alive and so that motivated her to try to do something that was very challenging. you know, sometime in the winter and spring of 1896 and what we do know, they lost a child in that time to an illness and that -- she was in a time of grief. they had been able to keep the large family alive. they only lost one son early on as infant and this was a time of sorrow, when she hears this it's a time of stress. it's also a time where the women are very strong, you do not leave the home specially to walk across america. for some reason, she had the decision encouraged to take this walk. she wrote clara, a beautiful young woman and had several stipulations of what they had to do and what they had to bring. they did bring a smith&westen. they had a curling iron. what is this item which you put over fire and heat it. they did not bring a change of clothes. they coul